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TagQueering Foucault: biopower in MSM tissue donation policy
By A.W.Sully
This essay was originally written for the CHID class Biofutures. It was readapted and published online in Graphite Publications in Montreal.
Michel Foucault, a French social theorist and historian of ideas, lectured on political power schemes. In feudal aristocracy and absolute monarchies, kings and dictators muzzle a limited power: “le droit de faire mourir ou de laisser vivre” (1) …