Year: 1995
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Derived from a marxist/liberal humanist view of power, conventional \ncritiques and historical accounts of the socio-medical sciences in \nSouth Africa see only their power to repress and negate the true \nbodily attributes and authentic person of the African. In so doing, \nthey ignore the productive capacity of these knowledges and \npractices as a manifestation of what Michel Foucault termed \n"disciplinary" power, by which the human body is manufactured and \nmade manageable as an object of medical knowledge and industrial \nutilisation. Accordingly, this thesis offers just such a Foucaultian \nreading of western socio-medical knowledge in South Africa to \ndemonstrate how it has operated to fabricate the bodies of Africans \nas visible objects possessed of distinct attributes that have \nprovoked particular strategies for their surveillance, management, \nand government in health and disease.
Author: Robert Alexander Butchart
Language: English
Topic: Foucault, Power, and Ethics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W570389724