Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 08:46:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Subject: Re: Foucauldian examinations of The Market (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:23:07 -0500 From: TOM DILLINGHAM <tomdill-AT-wc.stephens.edu> To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Subject: Re: Foucauldian examinations of The Market The suggestion that Foucault influenced the deinstitutionalizing of mental "patients" is ridiculous. The development of drug treatments (specifically Thorazine in 1952, as was discussed recently on one of the news magazines) was the primary force driving that policy; second but not necessarily less important was the wish of officials to save public monies by emptying the asylums and reducing food and staff expenses. The impact of _Madness and Civilization_ was certainly significant in intellectual circles, but hardly a puff in the direction of public policy. Tom Dillingham
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