The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception
Series: World of manPublication details: Routledge, 1973Description: 215pISBN:- 0415039576
- WZ 40.
Contents:
Summary: 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.
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.
| Item type | Home library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | David Adams Library (Royal Marsden) Shelves | WZ40 FOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0000002369 | |||
| Book | South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves | WZ 40 FOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 024480 |
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.
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