> Biopolitics is a particular political rationality, one that takes 'life itself' and citizens, imagined as 'populations', as its subject. This means that people are governed in relation to aspects of their biological being, and that governance is aimed at maximizing and/or controlling aspects of health at the population level. [[biopower]] is the way biopolitics is exercised. Population is a collective body, and the way government looks at the link between their behavior, e.g., eating habit, drinking, and exercising regimes, and their health as something to be owned and governed.