At first glance and brief investigation it becomes clear the philosophy of Michel Foucault predominantly centres around the idea of power and through further inspection how power operates in society, how do people, institutions, governments & nations gain or lose power and furthermore how do they maintain or exercise said power and his central theme or revelation regarding power seems to be that it is closely connected with knowledge. Michel Foucault is regarded as a politically charged activist type of philosopher as through research and documented evidence we find that although his philosophy and intellectual ideas span across and cover a vast array of topics such as how society has oppressed and exiled those deemed insane and psychologically unfit in his critically acclaimed ‘Madness in Civilization’ or his general criticism of the bourgeoisie power structures through neutral seeming institutions such a hospitals and doctor clinics in “The Birth of the Clinic”. Michel Foucault argues that modern medicine which is mainly attributed to the capitalist proletariat class is fundamentally sinister because they claim an abundant amount of power though there is no impartial body to regulate the way in which they exercise power, instead of healing and attempting to genuinely understand and look further to those deemed ‘insane’ they simply label, categorize and recognize and treat the diagnosed symptoms of there patients like mechanical animals. In my interpretation it seems that