Lucia Wolff Ruiz

Department of Philosophy, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany

Publications

• Review Article   
  Bourdieu meets Foucault the medicalization and (in) visibility of the disabled body
  Author(s): Lucia Wolff Ruiz*
  
  The world health organization estimates that 15 percent of the global population, or over one billion people, live with some form of disability. Yet, many disabled people remain invisible, living in poorly adapted places, or not having full control over medical decisions they want to make over their very own bodies. Historically, biopower emerged with the transformation of power structures in Western societies in the 17th century but had its most drastic development in the 18th century. The sovereign whose sword could take or pardon life got replaced by a complex society which developed the power to life; this is, the mechanisms to care for, limit, and even terminate life. Whereas the power of the sovereign is a power that “lets live”, bio power is a power that “makes live”. It targets life as to improve, optimize and ensure it... View More»
  

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