Socialist responsibilization: the government of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in the German Democratic Republic in the 1970s.
The article explores the importance of responsible self-government in a 'non-liberal' society. Drawing on governmentality and critical ability studies, it argues that the governmental technique of individual responsibilization usually associated with a (neo-)liberal social order constituted an impor...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 210 - 233 |
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