ABSTRACT
I study things like a psychiatric asylum, the forms of constraint, exclusion, elimination, disqualification, of which reason is always precisely incarnate, in the body of the doctor, in medical knowledge, medical institutions, etc., exercised over madness, illness, unreason, etc. What I study, is an architecture, a spatial organisation; disciplinary techniques, modalities of dressage, forms of surveillance; actually what I study is what I have called governmentality (a word which is undoubtedly much too grand): what are the practices which are put to work to govern men, that is to enable a certain manner of conducting them, government as the conduct of conduct, how to conduct the conduct of men. (Foucault 1978: 9)
