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Students will become acquainted with the interdependence of the education and the concept of the body with their theoretical basis.

The focus of the lecture will be the historical development of the concept of the body as an manipulatable and optimizable object in relation to the medicalization of childhood. Starting point will be Michel Foucault's analyzed discovery in the 18th century of the body as the object of power. This notion connects René Descartes' concept of the body as a machine which can be analyzed and taken apart to the procedures practiced in education, the military and hospitals, giving rise to what Foucault refers to as the "docile body" of the modern period. The continuity between the psychiatric and pediatric discourse around the "normal" and "abnormal" of the physical body of children and the medicalization of childhood from the 19th century to the present will be discussed.

Lecture, presentation of films, discussions.

oral examination

Baader, Meike S./Eßer, Florian/Schröer, Wolfgang (Hg.): Kindheiten in der Moderne. Eine Geschichte der Sorge. Frankfurt am Main 2014; Gebhardt, Miriam/Wischermann, Clemens (Hg.): Familiensozialisation seit 1933 – Verhandlungen über Kontinuität. Stuttgart 2007. Foucault, Michel (1975): Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison. Translated from the French Alan Sheridan. New York 1975; Foucault, Michel: Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975. Translated from the French Graham Burcell. New York 2003; Foucault, Michel (1963): The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception.Translated from the French Alan Sheridan. New York 1973; Lorenz, Maren: Leibhaftige Vergangenheit. Einführung in die Körpergeschichte. Tübingen 2000.

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