ABSTRACT
The ideology of science, its methodology, and the politics supporting its colonization have monopolized the world's curriculum for too long. For Foucault, the way out of this fixed system of belief is through genealogy, tracing the social intertwining in "nature"—along with any belief to scientific facts' immutable, inevitable, transhistorical, or immanent truth, "a matter of making visible its complex interconnections with a vast multiplicity of historical processes". Medicalization is the process of defining human conditions and problems as medical conditions, and thus they become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. Medicalization is intertwined with power dynamics between professionals, patients, and corporations; subjects are stripped of their context and turned into biopolitical statistics. Ecofeminist philosopher and activist Val Plumwood argues for the abandonment of the Western notion of a rational, unitary, Cartesian self, because she believes dualisms are "formed by domination and subordination".
