Biopower Medical Anthropology

Biopower - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

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Since the 1990s, Foucault's notion of biopower, the anthropology of the body and gender, the new reproductive technologies and kinship, and the politics of science and medicine, …

Power and Bodily Practice: Applying the Work of Foucault to an ...

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In opposition to theories of power which focus on the domination of one group by another, Michel Foucault coined the term "biopower" to refer to the ways in which …

Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 82, HUMBIO 176A)

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Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body …

ANTH 452 A: Explorations in Biopower | Department of …

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Explores Foucault's concept of biopower - power organized around life - from the perspectives of its theoretical mediations and its anthropological interventions. Looks at …

Biopower - Wikipedia

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Introduction: Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology

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Samantha Hurn and Alex Badman-King's contribution to this collection suggests that the potential of veterinary anthropology for theory in medical …

(PDF) Biopower. 2018. International …

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Biopower is exercised through numerous techniques, all aimed at achieving the subjugation of bodies and the control of populations. Operating within a capitalist frame, the …

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Flashcards | Quizlet

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Biological/physical anthropology Study of biological origins of humans. Human evolution and variation biologically between humans (ex. Teeth of early humans to assess lineage) …

Medical Anthropology | Anthropology Department

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Biopower, essentially the act of subjecting human well being to the politically charged impulses of a defectively informed populace, is the state’s power over one’s …

What is Biopower? (with pictures) - Language Humanities

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Biopower, Foucault argued, was the way in which capitalist states exerted control over people to better promote life. Major means of control were through statistics …