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"Baths have been widely used as part of coercive cultures,
particularly within institutions. For example, cold plunges, sudden
showers, and shockingly cold water have all been used as part of the
history of the treatment of the insane. Though the justification for
such techniques has often been in terms of shocking the patient back
into reason, a clearly coercive, even sadistic, element is also often
intensified by the use of machinery or the enforcement of humiliating
bodily postures. Though Michel Foucault does not write of baths in
particular, there is a strongly Foucauldian element in such
treatments with their emphasis on the disciplining and control of
bodies, as well as on the exercise of bio-power by key actors,
including welfare professionals."
Faircloth, Aging Bodies, AltaMira, 2003, p 150
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