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THE BIRTH OF THE CLINIC

Michel Foucault

In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. 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 phe...

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The book discusses the shift in language and perspective on illness and patients between the 18th and 19th centuries, moving from seeing patients as immersed in disease to viewing disease as something internal that needs to be fixed.

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There's a similar sort of thing in Foucault's book titled Birth of the Clinic when it comes to the way we treat patients and hospitals.

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Episode: Episode #122 ... Michel Foucault pt. 2 - The Order...

The book discusses the shift in language and perspective on illness and patients between the 18th and 19th centuries, moving from seeing patients as immersed in disease to viewing disease as something internal that needs to be fixed.

"

There's a similar sort of thing in Foucault's book titled Birth of the Clinic when it comes to the way we treat patients and hospitals.

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