Title:
The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception
Author:
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
ISBN:
9780415307727
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Naissance de la clinique. English
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Physical Description:
xxii, 266 pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
Routledge classics
Routledge classics.
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
This translation originally published: London : Tavistock, 1973.
Contents:
Spaces and classes -- A political consciousness -- The free field -- The old age of the clinic -- The lesson of the hospitals -- Signs and cases -- Seeing and knowing -- Open up a few corpses -- The visible invisible -- Crisis in fevers.
Abstract:
"In this book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of language and reason, even of truth. By analysing the methods of observation that underpinned the origins of modern medical techniques, Foucault is able to identify 'that opening up of the concrete individual, for the first time in Western history, to the language of rationality, that major event in the relationship of man to himself and of language to things'. The scope of such an undertaking is vast, but it is Foucault's skill that, by means of his uniquely engaging narrative style, his penetrating gaze is able to confront our own. After reading his words our perceptions are never quite the same again."-- Publisher's description
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Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780415307727.pdf