We conclude that the criteria for death as described in modern medical literature is valid and may be used with confidence by clinicians
Turning to Foucault, of course we see that power is not simply the ability to dominate. Rather, power
is a set of actions on possible actions; it incites, it induces, it seduces, it makes easier or more difficult; it releases or contrives, makes more probable or less; in the extreme, it constrains or forbids absolutely, but it is always a way of acting upon one or more acting subjects by virtue of their acting or being capable of action. A set of actions upon other actions.
In other words, anyone subject to power is free to act, is an acting subject, but the power relationship either subtly or explicitly contains the subject’s possible courses of action. There is freedom in power, because freedom operates within power.
{ First Monday | Continue reading | Thanks Rob | Michel Foucault, The Subject and Power, 1982 }
