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biopower
Definition(s)
- In Foucault's sociology the key to understanding social control in modern societies. Foucault argued that the new social and medical sciences of the nineteenth century – penology, criminology, sexology, psychiatry, psychology, sociology and medicine – operate as disciplines of power/knowledge. [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Biopower]
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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-BT57F4R8-W
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