The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault, ISBN-13: 978-0679753346

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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault, ISBN-13: 978-0679753346

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• Publisher: ‎ Vintage; 1st edition (March 29, 1994)
• Language: ‎ English
• 240 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0679753346
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0679753346

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 attitude—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.

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian who held the Chair of the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France. His many books in English include The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality, and “Discourse and Truth” and “Parrēsia” the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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