“…Particularly influenced by Foucault's reflection on the birth of the clinic (Foucault, 1994), the emphasis rested on the disciplinary effects of institutions such as asylums, hospitals, and schools, while focusing on the discursive level rather than microhistorical analysis. More recent scholarship has taken a different approach, looking especially at questions of knowledge, knowledge production, and the dissemination of knowledge within special institutions (e.g., Bakker, 2017; Bühler, 2018, 2019; Yoshii, 2019). Instead of focusing on the question of discipline they turned to questions of professionalization (Engstrom, 2003) as well as practices of knowledge and pointed to the contingency of categories as a means of critique (Wright and Digby, 2014; Bühler and Hofmann, 2017; Hofmann, 2017; Carlson, 2015; Ellis, 2019).…”