Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Drawing on Foucault's (1977) analysis of 'political anatomy ', Armstrong (1983; 1995) argues that the 20 th Century marked a shift in the clinical gaze, from a focus on the interior of the body, to a focus that both explored the body in relation to its exterior and to the collective body.Armstrong (1995) describes this new mechanism of power as 'surveillance medicine'.In what others have described as medicalisation (Illich 1975), or healthism (Crawford 1980), this extended medical gaze has redrawn the boundaries between health, illness and disease to promote a regime of total health.Under this regime, the individual is not just subjected to the technologies of medical surveillance, but is expected to engage in the practice of self-surveillance.
Source: Surveillance & Society
Institution: The Open University
Language: English
Topic: Foucault, Power, and Ethics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1894049536