The aim isnot to individualize the explanation or to make the actors the main story, but for politicalprocesses from over 70 years ago, there are no real alternatives to following the sourcesbetween specific actors and institutions.
I found this really interesting that there were real individuals involved and not just processes.
The choice of genealogy over the institutionalist approaches to health ideas is moti-vated by three main reasons. First, a genealogy is better suited to disentangling theheterogeneous threads and layers in the emergence of a new idea, whereas other ideaapproaches normally study fully formed ideas that gain a new position in institutions.Second, genealogy is particularly suited to retrieving the ‘forgotten struggles and sub-jugated knowledges’ (Walters, 2012: 132) underneath what in hindsight may look likesimple and coherent ideas.
I find it really interesting that genealogy can untangle the messy, mixed pieces that come together to form a new idea. Institutionalist approaches usually start with an idea that's already fully formed and just look at how it gets adopted by organizations.