false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171577776m/107971.jpg 107971 13 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 phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.<br><br>In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitudes -- in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death. 811276 1963 The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception total:309|5:85|4:123|3:83|2:16|1:2| 309 1200 541 16 5 0 false false Sat May 30 13:54:58 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 14:04:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 15 18:25:54 -0800 2008 Thu Jul 02 08:58:29 -0700 2009
1. It's one of his most approachable, even if it is a bit clunky in spots.
2. I'd recommend reading it before On the Order of Things as it's a good introduction to his study of epistemological change.
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