People better

Chapter 3: Medical Power and Dominance

informed seen
as consumers
Ensures that a particular point
Freedom of view prevails - discourse
Medicine intrudes on
scrutinized by
sensitive subjects
Challenges alternative
clinical decisions turned Ensures that a person acts in a
practitioners
to ethical decisions Power certain way control and
Curbing power
disciplinary
through control
Ability to stiffen opposition
system - NHS Clinical Autonomy
Modern Medicine into a particular perspective

Freedom of clinicians to make

decisions based on
Life and death
professional opinion and
Medical decisions forms decisions
expert knowledge
Medical Power and behaviours and labels e.g.
Dominance hysteria and madness

Directional Disciplinary
Harm done by Negative effects
Medical knowledge Disciplinary,
biomedicine and medical
Iatrogenesis as power (statistics) controlling and
intervention
caring
At risk factor
Clinical clinical damage embraces all

Cultural medical Regulation of

nemesis individual ideas
Surveillance
Public health: Area of
Regulation of
Uncertainty Control and health shared by larger
Panopticon social bodies -
turned to self- dominance: People public being controlled Epidemiology
surveillance - constantly monitor by biomedicine
disciplinary Forced to live themselves for signs
the way they Asserts what is
of abnormality
ought to pathological and
normal