Concept information
Preferred term
biopolitics
Definition
- The linking of the human body to organized medical knowledge so as to achieve social control (anatomo-politics; biopower; Birth of the Clinic, The; Foucault; morality and medicine; psyprofessions; surveillance). [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Biopolitics]
Broader concept
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/biopolitics
{{label}}
{{#each values }} {{! loop through ConceptPropertyValue objects }}
{{#if prefLabel }}
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
{{#if notation }}{{ notation }} {{/if}}{{ prefLabel }}
{{#ifDifferentLabelLang lang }} ({{ lang }}){{/ifDifferentLabelLang}}
{{#if vocabName }}
{{ vocabName }}
{{/if}}