De auteurs belichten de invloed van het werk van Foucault op de inzichten binnen de sociale geneeskunde. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Foucault and the sociology of health and illness: a prismatic reading / door David Armstrong: Is there life after Foucault? Texts, frames and 'differends' / door Nick J. Fox: Mental health, criminality and the human sciences / door David McCallum: At risk of maladjustment: the problem of child mental health / door Deborah Tyler: Foucault and the medicalisation critique / door Deborah Lupton: Is health education good for you? Rethinking health education through the concept of bio-power / Denise Gastaldo: Bodies at risk: sex, surveillance and hormone replacement therapy / door Jennifer Harding: Foucault, embodiment and gendered subjectivities: the case of voluntary self-starvation / door Liz Eckermann: Of health and statecraft / door Thomas Osborne: Risk, governance and the new public health / door Alan Petersen: Governing the risky self: how to become healthy, wealthy and wise / door Sarah Nettleton: Popular health, advanced liberalism and 'Good Housekeeping' magazine / door Robin Bunton.