The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception
Foucault, Michel
The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception - Routledge, 1973 - 215p - World of man .
Reprinted 2000. Original French publication 1963.
1. Spaces and classes -- 2. A political consciousness -- 3. The free field -- 4. The old age of the clinic -- 5. The lesson of the hospitals -- 6. Signs and cases -- 7. Seeing and knowing -- 8. Open up a few corpses -- 9. The visible invisible -- 10. Crisis in fevers.
Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, invites the reader to analyse the methods of observation that underpinned the origins of modern medical techniques and to uncover new layers of significance.
0415039576
Philosophy, medical
History of medicine
WZ 40.
The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception - Routledge, 1973 - 215p - World of man .
Reprinted 2000. Original French publication 1963.
1. Spaces and classes -- 2. A political consciousness -- 3. The free field -- 4. The old age of the clinic -- 5. The lesson of the hospitals -- 6. Signs and cases -- 7. Seeing and knowing -- 8. Open up a few corpses -- 9. The visible invisible -- 10. Crisis in fevers.
Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, invites the reader to analyse the methods of observation that underpinned the origins of modern medical techniques and to uncover new layers of significance.
0415039576
Philosophy, medical
History of medicine
WZ 40.