ABSTRACT
Adaptation of the mechanisms of social control to the needs of industrialized society affected human minds as much as human bodies. Chapter 2 discussed the developments in medical knowledge which produced more standardized conceptions of what body states would count as health and illness and the search for ways of enforcing those new definitions throughout the society. Modern conceptions of mental disorder and mental handicap were produced out of the same process. A new form of society called for a reconstruction of the way people thought about their relationships to nature and to each other.
