The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

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Psychology Press, 2003 - 266 pagine
"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.
 

Sommario

1 Spaces and Classes
1
2 A Political Consciousness
24
3 The Free Field
44
4 The Old Age of the Clinic
64
5 The Lesson of the Hospitals
77
6 Signs and Cases
107
7 Seeing and Knowing
131
8 Open Up a Few Corpses
152
9 The Visible Invisible
183
10 Crisis in Fevers
214
Conclusion
241
Bibliography
247
Index
259
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Foucault (1926-84) was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century. He was part of the ultimate intellectual generation in France

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