Government of conducts and contemporary subjectivities: The biocapital under consideration

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the production
of the healthcare market by the pharmaceutical industry,
the risk management/hazards, the sale and
purchase of various biomedical services, under the
current neoliberal model. The government of life in
biopolitics, which emerges from the second half of
the nineteenth century, brings health management
event to the forefront of social practices, on behalf
of making to live and letting to die, as part of the
history of population management event. This is a
theoretical study from genealogical incumbents,
based on Michel Foucault and other contemporary
authors, who have analyzed the biopolitical as biocapital
processes, pursuant to neoliberal governmentality
of entrepreneurship of life.