Surveillance and concealment
A comparison of techniques of client resistance in therapeutic communities and health visiting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23247382 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Bloor, James Mcintosh (0000-0002-1248-0262) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 93-116 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Selected Writings in Medical Sociological Research (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429434921-7 |
| OpenAlex | W2953887231 |
| ISBN | 9780429434921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This chapter examines the issue of power in therapeutic relationships from a Foucauldian viewpoint. It deals with a summary statement of Michel Foucault’s approach to power and his analysis of surveillance. Foucault’s writings offer a conceptualization of power quite distinct from the ways in which power is viewed in Max Weber and Karl Marx. The near-absence of collective ideological dissent in therapeutic communities and health visiting may reflect the general judgement that resistance is normally localized and specific and only rarely has a unique focal point Foucault’s project was to be a historian, and most researchers who have adopted his approach also followed him in studying documentary materials. Prior to Foucault’s work, the central importance of surveillance as a technique of power was hardly appreciated; it may be that the role of the obverse of surveillance - concealment - has been similarly unappreciated as a technique of resistance.
Internet privacy · Resistance (ecology) · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Medicine · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2018 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |