He claimed that by reducing the humanbody to a machine, a nation-state could control its population by exercising (*) bio-power.
In one book, this thinker argued that priests compiled peoples' darkest secrets into aquasi-scientific study of the title phenomenon. This thinker described how nosology enabled themortician and physician to expand the scope of their gaze. He claimed that by reducing the humanbody to a machine, a nation-state could control its population by exercising (*) bio-power. Besidescritically examining the "repressive hypothesis," this thinker argued that Bentham's model where a centralwarden can monitor all prisoners at once influenced the reform of penal systems. For 10 points, name thisauthor of The Birth of the Clinic and The History of Sexuality, a French thinker who discussed thePanopticon in Discipline and Punish.
In one book, this thinker argued that priests compiled peoples' darkest secrets into aquasi-scientific study of the title phenomenon.
Michel Foucault