noso-politics

I have just finished reading Foucault's essay on 'The Politics of Health  
in the Eighteenth Century,' and happened upon the rather interesting term  
"noso-politics."

Reading the essay raised a number of interesting questions regarding this  
term:

1.	Is this the only place where Foucault uses the term â?? I have not seen  
it elsewhere?
2.	Is it simply a forerunner to his notion of bio-politics â?? the essay was  
written in 1976,
	the same time at which Foucault introduced the notion of bio-politics?
3.	Does it refer specifically to the politics of disease (Greek: â??nososâ??),
	whereas bio-politics refers to the politics of health or life?
4.	What is its relation to anatamo-politics? Is there a triangle  
"anatomy-nosology-biology:"  								
	"individual-family/population-society"?
5.	Is noso-politics the medico-politics of police, whereas bio-politics is  
the medico-politics
	of liberal rationalities of government?
6.	Is it the medico-politics of natural history, whereas bio-politics is  
the medico-politics
	of biology proper?

Just some thoughts â?? Kevin.

-- 
Kevin Turner
Dept. of Sociology
Cartmel College
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YL

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