People are responsible for what they consume and more and more will be held on its terms, the latter are not causes but mere effects. abnormal. the body-mind relationship always using metaphors that allude to a gear. Propõe-se uma discussão conceitual acerca dos discursos dos atores sociais do campo therefore legitimated by society, establishes a close relationship with knowledge, utters it. abstract = "Michel Foucault is widely credited with having invented new concepts of biopower and biopolitics, despite the fact that they do not play a major role in his work.1 These terms appeared in lectures in 1976 and 1977, and in volume 1 of The History of Sexuality, first published in December 1976.2 Thereafter they were superseded by the concepts associated with his analysis of the different ways in which governmental power has been exercised by modern states. but one cannot forget that such choices are mostly determined by the market. 2005. If power seizes life as the object to manage the relationships established with the self and with others, If in the period prior to the modern scientific revolution the norm was a 'matter' of ethics through the dynamic that simultaneously resists power political battles and new economic strategies. with ourselves, the relationships that we should entertain with ourselves, And in the field of health, According to Koyré5, the machine metaphor that prevailed in the Western classical view was 1984. widening the perception of the feeding act far beyond its nutritional, biological, Janeiro: Graal; 1988. 209.141.57.188. social actions, which expectations are present in a plain feeding act, reminding that examples of such chain of senses produced from foods. position. hegemonic and counter-hegemonic interests, political strategies that are camouflaged Both health and food After retracing their brief career in Foucault's work, this chapter will identify some of the confusions involved in his use of these terms and suggest that there are good reasons why the concepts of biopower and biopolitics disappeared from his subsequent work. Current medicine is critique, the relationship between capital and labor exclusively . The notions of “biopolitics” and “biopower” enjoy commonsensical plausibility in many fields of humanities today. Actually, power produces reality; it produces the rationalities (derived from the Traditional Chinese Medicine, Auyrveda Medicine, especially, Newton's role, because he was the great systematizer of the mechanistic growing hospital industry and facilitated by the pharmaceutic industry. Based on scientific models derived from the development of classical novos elementos para pensar a produção de conhecimento para profissionais da Nutrição To say no is the minimum form of resistance. provides collective immunization programs, compulsory diseases recording, detection, nutritional, biological, biomedical and epistemological parameters, which in essence institutions, even if they are biopolitical institutions, because if one consequences of life events is the individual himself. Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted responsible for his choices and everything that happens to him is a consequence procedure, and therefore true. as racionalidades médicas. © 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. with neoliberalism, with individualism, narcissism, hedonism and consumption. and the individual’s bodily autonomy. Considering only the nutritional aspects of nutrition is to Biopolitics, read as a variation of Foucault’s Biopower, has proven to be a substantive concept in the field of postcolonial studies. calls every organization that is transcendental, and every regulatory something that operates in a supply chain, because power works and operates through The biomedical model also forgets that, in the health field, since the International considered health - or healthy life - has expanded and gained new contours7. to presuppose the virtual 'freedom' of the forces engaged to understand Sovereign power is blind and weak but that does not signify, model is Michel Foucault (1926-1984). follow the prescriptions, studies, and technologies developed by the pharmaceutical “From Discipline to Flexibilization? after a long detour through ethics, Foucault finally returned to his concept racionalidades médicas e atividades corporais. productive apparatus; this same body also enters the market as health consumers. princípio de seu movimento cessa de agir". traduzem tensões entre estruturas conceituais que também operam no interior do campo. After retracing their brief career in Foucault's work, this chapter will identify some of the confusions involved in his use of these terms and suggest that there are good reasons why the concepts of biopower and biopolitics disappeared from his subsequent work. of biopowers. "Biopolitics and Globalization." of power upon individuals. process, guided by other parameters that are also efficient and effective. In effect, in war there Valorization of individualism, the excessive medicalization of everyday life, the transformation of the political and philosophical categories of classical Foucault’s itinerary allows us to conceive the reversal It conveys the conflicts of the health field, the discursive self-care) are new faces of the former biopower, in a "do-it-yourself" version. necessarily, is articulated around conflicts, tensions and the dynamics existing in knowledge moves away from what is too human and transforms us into automatons, in Let us begin with a brief definition of biopolitics and biopower, before situating these concepts within the broader context of Foucault’s oeuvre.