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is a biopolitical approach which defines the normal in advance and then proceeds to isolate and deal with anomalies given that definition.

the normalizing practices of bio-power define the normal in advance and then proceed to isolate and deal with anomalies given that definition.

is the tendency in contemporary society to see the criminal as being in need of treatment rather than punishment. It points to an emphasis on medical notions of the normal over legal notions of conformity.

Foucault argues that contemporary society is a society based on medical notions of the norm, rather than on legal notions of conformity to codes and the law. Hence criminals need to be 'cured' of a disease not punished for an infraction of the law. There is a insoluble tension between a system based on law and a system based on medical norms in our legal and medical institutions.

is the way in which modern power operates. It is characterized as more than socialization. Norms are progressively brought to bear on 'all aspects of life' and seeks to cover all practices.

establishes over individuals a visibility through which one differentiates them and judges them' (Foucault 1979:184). DISCIPLINARY POWER AS 'NORMALIZING' 'Foucault refers to the totalizing tendency of disciplinary power as 'normalization.' Normalization is, of course, more than socialization into norms. Socialization into norms is the universal way the understanding of being or power governs the actions of the members of any society. In the new arrangement which has emerged more and more clearly since the Classical Age, however, norms are progressively brought to bear on 'all aspects of life' What makes normalization different (and dangerous) is that it seeks to cover all practices. Heidegger, quoting Nietzsche, says, 'the wasteland grows.' (NET) HOW MODERN POWER OPERATES'The process of normalization lies at the heart of how modern power operates' (Emily Martin 1993:67)NORMALIZING ISOLATES ANOMOLIES AFTER IT DEFINES THE NORMAL'addition, as in normal science, the normalizing practices of bio-power define the normal in advance and then proceed to isolate and deal with anomalies given that definition. [Dreyfus and Rabinow 1983:258]'

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