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 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 a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-679-75334-6
- EAN: 9780679753346
- Produktnummer: 9052865
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.0 cm 224 g
- Gewicht: 224
Über den Autor
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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