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The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception / Michel Foucault ; translated by A.M. Sheridan

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge classicsPublication details: London : Routledge, [2003 (2005 printing)]Description: xxii, 266 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780415307727
  • 9780415307727
Uniform titles:
  • Naissance de la clinique English
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Partial 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
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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.

Translated from the French

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