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Mabel asked in Social ScienceSociology · 1 decade ago

How do you analyzed "lack of information" to the way of Michel Foucault thinking?

Michel Foucault`s definition of panoptism, power and discipline would be intereting to used when we are going to analized how the health goverment in general miss the time to inform the patient. Is it power? or is it totally discipline?Remember knowedge is power according Foucault.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    t be able to exercise control and total control - knowledge of everything and knowing everything is important - hence knowledge is power. without knowledge control will be lopsided and hence not able to exercise power in its true sense. hence discipline is imperative for the flow of knowledge to the controllers of power.....

    this is true nowadays as power is concentrated into various individuals in many fields......

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