La medicalización de la infancia como estrategia de gobierno

This paper provides an account of a study whose aim was to know the psychoscientific strategies associated with the production of subjectivity in neoliberalism. The authors used a historicalcritical approach based on the foucauldian studies. Results: (1) the medicalization of life has beena government strategy; (2) the medicalization of childhood -also a government strategy- has gone through three stages, each of which has produced a specific form of subjectivity; (3) three reason for the medicalization of childhood have been found, and (4), psychoscience and bioscience are the discourses that have directed this medicalization. The authors conclude that neoliberalismhas used this medicalization strategy, which was created by the psy sciences, to expand the commodification of life and configure the self-managed subjectivity of the entrepreneur.