The goberment of the ‘mad’. Technologies of power in tension in the internation service psychiatric of the hospital of the Dr Emilio Mira y Lopez

Authors

  • Patricia Spadaro Universidad Nacional del Litoral

Keywords:

Government, Madness, Mental Hospital, Antipsychiatry, Time, Space, Foucault

Abstract

In the present article we analyze, from a sociological point of view, the service of confinement in psychiatry of the hospital Dr. Emilio Mira y López from the city of Santa Fe, with the aim of elucidate how its the population is governed.  With this purpose in mind, we consider the regulations and the uses of the time and the space –of the medical staff and the patients- understood as indicators of certain logic of government. The approach towards this object of study was made through a qualitative methodological strategy, being used jointly the tools of ethnographic observations and interviews in depth. What guides this work is a typically foucaultian preoccupation, what is to reveal the exercise of the power, understood like set of regular and rational practices that combines tactics and strategies. From this perspective, the power is studied in the terms of a technology. Throughout this paper, we recognize and consider critically the different technologies of power/government that coexist in tension within the service of confinement in psychiatry of the hospital Dr. Emilio Mira y López. 

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Author Biography

Patricia Spadaro, Universidad Nacional del Litoral

Licenciada en Sociología por la Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina. Estudiante de segundo nivel de Master en Ciencias Sociales, Mención Sociología, en l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Francia. E-mail: patricia.spadaro@yahoo.com.ar

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Spadaro, P. (2012). The goberment of the ‘mad’. Technologies of power in tension in the internation service psychiatric of the hospital of the Dr Emilio Mira y Lopez. Cuadernos De H Ideas, 4(4). Retrieved from https://perio.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/cps/article/view/1405

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 4 (2010)

Section

Artículos

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