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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of the Medical View

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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of the Medical View
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This book by French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926–1984) explores a period in the history of medicine when clinical thinking replaced the old knowledge of surgeons and healers. The transformation of medical theory and practice, the search for new relationships between doctors and patients, the reform of medical faculties, and the fates of doctors against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the French Revolution—all of this provides Foucault with abundant material for constructing his own conception of knowledge, which would take shape in Words and Things. Birth of the Clinic traces the development of Foucault's thought, step by step crafting his own vision of the history of ideas: from early insights inspired by the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Binswanger to a nuanced structuralist analysis of texts and a postmodern critique of metaphysics. This makes the book of interest to both doctors and philosophers, but it is primarily addressed to readers interested in the history of thought.
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