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biopolitics  

Definition

  • The linking of the human body to organized medical knowledge so as to achieve social control (anatomo-politics; biopower; Birth of the Clinic, The; Foucault; morality and medicine; psyprofessions; surveillance). [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Biopolitics]

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