The Psychiatry of Prevention. The Discursive Entanglements of Medicine and Security

作者：van Raden Rolf^*

来源：Kriminologisches Journal, 2010, 42(4): 289-302.

• Discourse analysis
• psychiatry
• prevention
• biopolitics
• degeneration
• devolution
• neuroscience

Prevention is a concept that originated in the medical field, but that, from the mid-19(th) century onwards, increasingly gained political importance. The protection of society from internal threats was put on the agenda by a scientific discipline that claimed to be able to prevent social delinquency by diagnosing biological anomalies: psychiatry. This paper highlights some of the central arguments and discursive strategies that enabled the paradigm of prevention to become a leading discursive formation. A critique of the politics of prevention in the 21(st) century cannot be formulated without an understanding of these processes, since their effects are unfolding to this day.

• 出版日期2010