EDB172 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Involuntary Unemployment, New Medicine, Educational Psychology

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14 Jun 2018
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Psychopathologisation and Education
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How did we take personality and turn it into categories/disorders and what relation does that
have to the governance of the population
Translate normal human difference into illness
Governance revision:
o Modern governance: how the past differs from contemporary society
Based around sovereign rule
Undifferentiated
o Medieval times, power exercised two functions:
War: the hard-won monopoly of arms
Pease: arbitration of law suits and punishment of crimes
o End of middle ages, added:
Maintenance of order
Organisation of enrichment
o 18th century, emerged:
Provision of physical well-being and health for the organisation
o Structure of modern institutions:
Hierarchical observation
Normalising judgement e.g. teacher in classroom decides who passes, fails, is
good, bad etc.
o Relationships between production of categories and differentiation
o Social categories produced to make an explanation for a certain type of social context
Sexuality
Hundreds of categories to differentiate
Over 150 years, gone from no categories of difference to literally hundreds and each can be
treated differently = effective governance
o Are these real, or are they products of a form of governance which works by producing
categories?
How psychology works is a form of governance, the difference is that psychology says that
they are 'real'/have always been here
Brief history of medicine
The 'necessitous pauper' = a person who needed help
o The reason for that need of help wasn't subdivided
o Mid 18th century onwards - began to be subdivided (good poor, bad poor, wilfully idle,
involuntarily unemployed, etc.)
Disaggregation of the 'necessitous pauper' the result of an increased ability to discriminate
within the popualtion i.e. via statistics
--> 'Galenic' Medicine (balance of four bodily humours) became replaced by 'New' Medicine
(the anatomo-clinical method)
---> The 'Birth of the Clinic'
o Hospitalisation was made a pre-requisite for those who couldn't be treated at home,
allowed doctors to keep track of similar diseases/illnesses - began statistics
o A new understanding of the body as a 'bearer of variables' - whole new set of disorders
and diseases
o --> set the ground for a new way of understanding the body in relation to illness
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