What would Foucault say about the social constructs and normalizing powers at play in determining what counts as schizophrenia?

Good writing is 90% revision, so read my comments on paper 4 when you get them and let me know if you have any questions. Besides revision, you should also expand by a couple hundred words (approximately) and say what one philosopher we studied this term would say about the diagnostic category you wrote about. Whether you include Plato, Nietzsche, or Foucault, be sure to use key features of their own thinking in your assessment.
Comments from previous submittal (previous paper attached):
Very good analysis. For revision, focus on the concept of delusion, as I point out in my comment on your paper. This is a place to identify “epistemic” values, i.e. how the DSM identifies what counts as justified belief and what doesn’t, if it does this at all (if not, that’s worth pointing out too!). Also focus more on the ethical values, since they are tied closely to epistemic values: whether or not a person counts as having knowledge/justified belief impacts whether they are taken seriously or otherwise treated ethically (here you might be interested in the concept of “epistemic injustice”: https://books.google.com/books/about/Epistemic_Injustice.html?id=lncSDAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description).
Finally, introduce a philosopher we discussed to your analysis. For example, what would Foucault say about the social constructs and normalizing powers at play in determining what counts as schizophrenia?

Last Completed Projects