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

The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

Michel Foucault with A.M. Sheridan Smith (Translator)

215 pages first pub 1963 (editions)

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

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