The Birth of the Clinic: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Foucault, Michel
The Birth of the Clinic: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Foucault, Michel

The Birth of the Clinic: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a...
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Author: Michel Foucault
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Language: English
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The Birth of the Clinic: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Foucault, Michel

The Birth of the Clinic: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

$49.17
The Birth of the Clinic: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Foucault, Michel

The Birth of the Clinic: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

$49.17
Author: Michel Foucault
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 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.

Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 03/29/1994
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.21w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780679753346

About the Author
Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.
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