ENGLISH

The Birth of the Clinic

By Michel Foucault

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
4153077249
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
878 kB (898628 bytes)
Pages
225\225
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

In this remarkable 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 analyzing 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.

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