Categories like health and normality are produced by disciplinary regimes

Evidence

In other words, what informed this new disciplinary power was a new science of government that was based on new disciplines that differentiated the healthy from the sick, the productive from the idle, the normal from the abnormal. In fact, the very notions of health, productivity and normality were by-products of these disciplines. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 710

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Challenges the assumption that health/productivity/normality are natural categories — they are manufactured by the disciplines that sort people into them.
• XREF: Directly echoes Foucault’s genealogy of the ‘normal’ and also Hacking’s ‘making up people’; relevant to the reader’s interest in how institutions construct categories. — connects to: The positive-normative split is a vehicle for exporting disciplinary values — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 582