The Birth of the Clinic (Routledge Classics)
In The Birth of the Clinic, Michel Foucault explores the emergence of clinical medicine and the changing ways illness became understood through medical knowledge, observation, and institutional practice. A foundational work for readers of philosophy, medical history, and social theory.
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The Birth of the Clinic is a work by Michel Foucault on the history and development of clinical medicine.
Its title focuses attention on the clinic as an important setting for medical knowledge and practice.
The book connects medicine with broader questions about knowledge, observation, institutions, and ways of understanding illness.
Published in the Routledge Classics series, it offers a significant work for readers interested in Foucault, medical history, and social theory.
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