The mechanism of scientific classification, or traditional science in general, is an "encryption" process wherein access is only available to individuals who knows the language of science. Access to information and knowledge is oftentimes dependent on external factors such as socio-economic capability, age, educational attainment, and race, among others. In this mechanism, not all extant and observable information is understood, thus providing little or no venue for understanding and critical thinking on the part of the individual who does not know the language of traditional science.
A6. Financially benefiting or profiting from healthcare and the medical profession is a latent example of how scientific classification has made healthcare a very expensive and exclusive sector wherein specific groups of people are given access to it. Medical practitioners who are able to educate themselves in the field of biological science have gained access to information and knowledge about the field, which also enabled them to have access to the profit that the healthcare sector is receiving from people needing medical attention. The reality that patients and healthcare consumers pay the expensive amount of service provided them without question is an example of the "empiricist control" that pervades the healthcare sector and medical profession.
A7. I consider the issue of subjectification as a result of the empiricist control as representative of the mechanisms of dividing practices and scientific classification discussed earlier. Subjectification centers the focus on the individual, who is treated as a "subject" who becomes 'imprisoned' by the mechanisms that traditional science has developed society for years. 'Imprisonment' in the context of Dzurec's analysis...
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