Increasingly therefore the discourse of medicine begins to shift from a concern with the isolated body to its environment. In medical sciences, the initial idea of the body was one of isolation. But today it is seen in a bio-psycho-social environment. This concept opens up an otherwise sealed body to an environment that is full of biological, psychological, social ideas about the body.

Therefore there is a new disciplinary apparatus. Today the disciplinary and regulatory powers of biopower are manifested in the following areas: