BIOPOLITICS AND BIOHISTORY-REALITY OR STRATEGY

Viorella MANOLACHE

BIOPOLITICS AND BIOHISTORY-REALITY OR STRATEGY

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Viorella MANOLACHE¹

¹ Scientific researcher III, PhD, Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Accepted 25 March 2026

Available Online 15 March 2013

Abstract

THE PRESENT STUDY PLACES ITSELF IN THE EQUATION OF BIOPOLITICAL REFLEXES, APPROACHING THE FACT THAT POLITICALLY, PRIVATE AND „LIBERAL” MEDICINE CAN BE ACCEPTED AS A MEDICAL POLITICS OF POWER. THE ARTICLE WILL VERIFY THE HYPOSTASIS ACCORDING TO WHICH, SOCIAL MEDICINE REPRESENTS A NORMATIVE DISCIPLINE OF THIS PSYCHO-BIOLOGICAL FUTURE OF THE INDIVIDUAL, CO NSIDERED AN INTEGRAL PART OF SOCIETY SUBSUMED TO A CULTURE OF HEALTH, ACHIEVED THROUGH PREVENTIVE, CURATIVE, HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEASURES. BIOHISTORY TRANSLATES, IN FOUCAULT'S VIEW, THE BIOLOGICAL EFFECT OF MEDICAL INTERVENTION – MEDICALISATION NETWORK, SOCIALISATION OF BODY DEPENDING ON PRODUCTION AND LABOUR FORCE, WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE FOLLOWING “MATHEMATICAL” EQUATIONS: BODY = BIOPOLITICAL REALITY AND MEDICINE = BIOPOLITICAL STRATEGY. THE STUDY WILL RECUPERATE BIOPOLITICS PRETEXTS AND REFLEXES, REACTIV ATING (DISTANT FROM THE IDEOLOGICAL PRESSURE) THE LOCAL PARTICULARISING REPLIES IN THE '30S AND '40S- THAT OF THE EUGENIC AND BIOPOLITICAL BULLETIN, AND THE CONTEMPORARY DIMENSION OF MEDICAL POSSIBILITIES AND CRISES.

Keywords

BIOPOLITICS SOCIAL MEDICALISATION / SOCIAL MEDICINE POWER

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