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Whoever is watched, whether they are inmates or nurses, are inexorably exposed to the judgment of others (45). In light of previous research results (45), we can establish parallels between inmates’ living conditions and nurses’ working conditions. The point here is to derive an overall picture of the institution in order to express a judgment about how all actors on the prison scene are subjects, whether they be inmates or nurses to various technologies of power. In an ethnographic study concerning the insane individual’s social condition in psychiatric environments, Goffman (17) briefly discussed the working conditions of personnel in total institutions, placing the latter in opposition with the patients they look after.
More recently, in Pharmacracy, published in 2001, Szasz refined his analysis, defining “pharmacracy” as a totalitarian regime of social control that uses drug therapy being the main regulating mechanism (6). The agents of the regime are the health care professionals, principally psychiatrists, whose certifying role classifies, what Szasz perceives as, socially undesirable, unacceptable, or criminal behavior as diseases and results in the use of psychotropic drugs and other biopsychiatric interventions for treatment and solution.
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