The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault, A.M. Sheridan-Smith

The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

Michel Foucault, A.M. Sheridan-Smith

240 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 phenomen...

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