What we are witnessing here is more than simply an attempt to maintain a healthy sanitary environment; this is the first manifestation of a new kind of power that exhibited itself on the body of the conscript, not in the spectacular way of his being beaten in front of his battalion, but in a more subtle, diffuse and cynical way. This is what Foucault calls "disciplinary power," disciplinary not only because it attempts to manage the body (of the citizen and the conscript alike), but also in the sense that it created disciplines, discourses, that took the body of the individual to be its primary concern, e.g. medicine, psychology, criminology, etc.

DEFINE: Foucault's 'disciplinary power' is defined as subtle, diffuse, and cynical—targeting the body through disciplines like medicine, psychology, and criminology—as opposed to spectacular public punishment. Builds on: "What was targeted now was the minds of the populace and not their “gazes."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 728