"My hypothesis, that one is not with capitalism has moved from collective to private medicine, but that the exact opposite has happened; of capitalism, the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Jahrhunders evolved, first of all a first object associated, the body, in his capacity as productive or labor. The control of society over individuals is accomplished not only through the consciousness or ideology, but eenso in the body and the body. was for the capitalist society, especially the bio-politics important to the biological, the somatic and the physical. The body is a bio-political realities, and the medicine is a bio-political strategy "
[Michel Foucault: The Birth of Social Medicine, Dits et Ecrits III]
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