The birth of the clinic
an archaeology of medical perception.
by Michel Foucault
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"In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible. In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitudes - in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death." --
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History, Modern 1601-, Modern History of Medicine, Philosophy, Medicine, History of Medicine, History, Médecine, Histoire, Philosophie, Foucault, Michel,, Gezondheid, Ideeëngeschiedenis, Geneeskunde, Attituden, Philosophy, french, Science, Social aspects, Medical Philosophy, Clinical MedicineShowing 3 featured editions. View all 22 editions?
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The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception
1994, Vintage Books
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The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception.
1975, Vintage Books
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Bibliography: p. 201-209.
Reprint of the ed. published by Pantheon Books, New York, in series: World of man.
Translation of Naissance de la clinique.
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