Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 01:56:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew King <making-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: Judges and psychiatrists


On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Prarthna Chaddha wrote:

> Question:
> Is Foucault's thesis on the general shift from juridical to disciplinary 
> forms of social power applicable to law?

There's a piece in _Politics, Philosophy, Culture_ about the colonization
of the legal system by disciplinary power--how the power of the judge is
displaced in the courtroom by that of the psychiatrist.

Matthew

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