Power comes in different flavors, asserted the French theorist Michel Foucault. Sarah Burgess explains the difference between sovereign power and biopolitical power; she also discusses biopolitical practices and rhetorics of power in the context of the easily preventable death of a Canadian woman in her prison cell.
Happe, Johnson, and Levina, eds., Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power NYU Press, 2018