Medical inspection of schools and school children

Story, John B.

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“…There was more than one way of answering that question, but there was also widespread agreement that the future of state and nation hinged on the 'efficiency' of the rising generation (Gogarty, 1912;Moffat, 1911;Story, 1911Story, , 1912Thompson, 1913).…”

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“…Among the symptoms and signs of abnormality were mischievousness, disobedience, angry outbursts and deceitfulness. This was taken as evidence not simply of individual defect, but also inadequate parenting, which was seen to necessitate the extension of the technique from school to home, so that parents could be supervised and homes placed under medical surveillance (Moffat, 1911;Story, 1911;Thompson, 1913). It is here that the practice of medical inspection can be seen to augment the penal reformatory school and connect up with the discourse of infant life protection.…”

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Governing the future: children’s health and biosocial power

Ryan¹

2017

Reframing Health and Health Policy in Ireland

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This chapter builds an analysis around the health aspects of theNational Strategy for Research and Data on Children’s Lives 2011-2016.Adopting a genealogical approach to the present, it explores the meaning of ‘health’ – in the case of children – in the context of the Department of Health’s Policy Framework for a Healthier Ireland 2012-2020.Drawing on Foucault’s notion of biopolitics, the chapter argues that what is unique to the intersection of ‘childhood’ and ‘health’ is the way this articulates what might be described as a ‘biosocial imperative’: the ways in which ‘incomplete’ life is strategically acted upon through social technologies with a view to governing the future.By approaching the National Strategy via the past, this chapter shows how we have moved from biosocial technologies whereby childhood is a means to securing strategic ends, to a biosocial apparatus that constructs children as actors to be acted upon with a view to governing the future.

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Section: The Strategy Of Hygienementioning

confidence: 99%