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Cities, bodies medicalized and the biocapital: the market health

Abstract

This article aims to put in question the medicalization practices of cities and bodies through the government of life in a neoliberal society that became the capital populations and areas of the city enterprise spaces. Want to think the subjectivity processes making a critical investment of cities and bodies as biocapitais rely on a growing market, in the name of health and safety. With the studies of Michel Foucault and some of its tools made a brief history of the medicalization of cities and bodies. Also well as their effects on the production of subjectivities, in the contemporary.

biocapital; towns; bodies; medicalization; biopolitics

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