 Michel Foucault’s  work, and use of the concepts biopower and biopolitics, remain touchstones for much of the critical discourse surrounding biomedicine. Foucault’s critique of modern medicine is part of a career critiquing other aspects of modernity, including the related topic of psychiatry. His famous work The Birth of the Clinic is written as a history, though in the process it highlighted aspects of biomedicine that other scholars went on to critique as well, either based on his critique or in parallel to it: dehumanization, reductionism, measurement and observation methods of dubious value, and the problem of the biomedicine’s institutional power (Foucault 1963 [2002]).