Ethics as ascetics: Foucault, the history of ethics, and ancient thought

Davidson, Arnold I.

doi:10.1017/ccol9780521403320.007

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“…There are four aspects to an analysis of the ethical self-government of people with genital herpes, namely ontology, ascetics, deontology and telos (Davidson, 1994;Dean, 1999;Foucault, 1992). These are the 'four folds of subjectivation' (Deleuze, 1999: 104).…”

Section: Analysing the Ethical Self-government Of People With Genitalmentioning

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Governing the contagious body: genital herpes, contagion and technologies of the self

Oster

Cheek

2008

Health (London)

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a b s t r a c t Genital herpes is a prevalent sexually transmitted viral infection. While genital herpes is not life-threatening, it can cause physical discomfort and psychosocial diffi culties, and may increase the risk of contracting HIV. Given that genital herpes cannot be cured, both the condition itself, and the possibility of passing it on to others, becomes a part of the everyday reality of those individuals diagnosed with genital herpes. In this article we explore the ways in which people with genital herpes attending the Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) clinic govern their 'contagious bodies'. The discussion draws on the Foucauldian concept of governmentality, and uses Foucault's idea of ethics as a framework to identify the technologies of the self by which individuals with genital herpes govern their own thoughts and behaviours in relation to the contagiousness of the condition. Implications for practice and other ways of thinking about what happens in the STI clinic context are suggested.k e y w o r d s contagion; genital herpes; governmentality; technologies of the self a

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Section: Analysing the Ethical Self-government Of People With Genitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing the contagious body: genital herpes, contagion and technologies of the self

Oster

Cheek

2008

Health (London)

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“…Our subjectivity is shaped by governmental initiatives, at least partly because these initiatives promote self-governance and self-regulation (see Hunter, 1996;Davidson, 2005). Subjectivity and ethics are embedded in the relations of power through which we are either made governable or self-governable.…”

Section: Inscribing and Governing Subjectivitymentioning

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HIV advice in the media: Implications for reinventing subjectivity

Nkomo

Long

2017

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“…Citizenship is avowed by participating in consumer-based activities and the maintenance of an accredited life-style (Miller 1993). The process has been described as an 'ethic of the self' (Davidson, 1994) and is supported by an ever increasing array of experts embedded in a range of social systems such as physicians, health professionals, social workers, beauticians, personal trainers and financial advisers (Rose 1999). …”

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Governmentality, Social Policy and the Social Construction of Old Age in England

Powell

2014

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This article looks in more detail at the incidence and consequence of social policies for older people through the distinctly French post-structuralist lens of governmentality (Foucault, 1977). This will enable us to consider the implications of the re-figuring of the relationship between the state, older people and social work. This re-figuring constructs an ambiguous place for older people: they feature either as a resource -captured in the idea of the 'active citizen', as affluent consumers, volunteers or providers of child care -or as a problem in the context of poverty, vulnerability and risk. In many ways, policy provides three trajectories for older people: first, as independent self-managing consumers with private means and resources; second, as people in need of some support to enable them to continue to self-manage; and third, as dependent and unable to commit to self-management. Governmentality provides the theoretical framework through which to view policy and practice that is largely governed by discourses of personalisation, safeguarding, capability and risk.

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Ethics as ascetics: Foucault, the history of ethics, and ancient thought

Cited by 121 publications

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Governing the contagious body: genital herpes, contagion and technologies of the self

Governing the contagious body: genital herpes, contagion and technologies of the self

HIV advice in the media: Implications for reinventing subjectivity

Governmentality, Social Policy and the Social Construction of Old Age in England

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