In his important book Discipline and Punish (1975) the body is seen as a target of punishment through incarceration. When we refer to the prison system for instance, the body becomes a target of punishment. This is the way in which the body is a social instrument. The body also belongs to the cultural realm since it is a lived entity. Second, the body becomes a prescribed one, to the extent that we do not realise there is control over it. There is a prescription of how to maintain the health and propriety of our bodies. The health here is something prescribed since the normalizing techniques and discourses of nineteenth-century human sciences in Europe. So there is a shift therefore from a visible control to a control through prescription which is nothing but biopower i.e. regulatory and disciplinary practices. This is an important point in understanding the body in Cultural Studies.