Enclosure Movement: General Hospital as a Device for Exorcise and Confine Social Risks

• Autor(a) principal: Menezes, Manuel
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.7559/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2014.268

Since the beginning of modernity many measures have been implemented by European public authorities with the aim of resolving the problems of security that have arisen as a result of vulnerability attribute of a crowd of miserable released and not absorbed by the industry. Among those measures, we would like to pay particular attention to the movement of enclosure. This is a movement that, despite being characteristic of other areas of Europe, in France it has developed more deeply, as a social precautionary measure. Thus, it will be our intention to show how, from the second half of the 17th century and by more than a century, the General Hospital of Paris is crystallized as the sine qua non condition for the promotion of safety of the social body. That is, we seek to expose how, during this period, the hospital, surpassing the functions that were initially defined, has become the ultimate symbol of confrontation of social risks in France.