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

The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

A.M. Sheridan-Smith, Michel Foucault

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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