Crítica de la economía biopolítica : dimensiones políticas del pensamiento médico / Criticism of the biopolitical Economics: political dimensions of medical thinking

摘要

The present article carries out a re-examination of several of the interlaced axes that Foucauldian research develops across the history of medicine and the configuration of the biopolitical governmentality. When the management of the population in terms of security is intersected with a ?medical thought? that, beyond the limits of the discipline, constitutes a reasoning on the basis of the normal and the pathological, a set of policies appear that - from the constitution and crisis of the Welfare State to the problematic relations with the juridical sciences and the question of the health - place health, the body and the disease at the center of the management of life. By extending such analyses to some recent phenomena we will try to explore the challenges that contemporary neoliberalism leads us to face up to. Keywords: biopolitics, history of medicine, governmentality, liberalism, neoliberalism