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biopower  

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  • In Foucault's sociology the key to understanding social control in modern societies. Foucault argued that the new social and medical sciences of the nineteenth century – penology, criminology, sexology, psychiatry, psychology, sociology and medicine – operate as disciplines of power/knowledge. [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Biopower]

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