Medical Risk Factors as Biopower: A Guide to Resistance

Medical Risk Factors as Biopower: A Guide to Resistance

Introduction Different forms of power have evolved in history. In Foucault’s view, to talk about power one must examine the history of medicine too. For example, the shift from sovereign power to biopolitics may be seen alongside the evolution of medicine. Consequently, to understand either politics or medicine, one must study them in parallel. However, it is difficult to link Foucauldian forms of power directly to specific historical moments, b…