Michel Foucault, at the end of his life, was obsessed by what he called the triumph of the “medical power” and the “medicalization” of widespread society.
Almost forty years later, with the coronavirus, we are where we are.
By medicalization, he heard first the belief, almost religious in the word of the therapist and the replacement of the ruler by the physician in the role of the good shepherd leading companies. Frankly, are we so far away when we see world leaders surround themselves with scientific Advice haloed prestige that they would like to capture as a gr…
