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The birth of the clinic / Michel Foucault.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge classicsPublication details: London : Routledge, 2003.Description: 266 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0415307724
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.9 FOU
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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. The scope of such an undertaking is vast, but by means of his uniquely engaging narrative style, Foucault¿s penetrating gaze is skilfully able to confront our own. After reading his words our perceptions are never quite the same again.

This translation originally published: London: Tavistock, 1973.

Includes index.

Translated from the French.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Translator's Note
  • Preface
  • 1 Spaces and Classes
  • 2 A Political Consciousness
  • 3 The Free Field
  • 4 The Old Age of the Clinic
  • 5 The Lesson of the Hospitals
  • 6 Signs and Cases
  • 7 Seeing and Knowing
  • 8 Open Up a Few Corpses
  • 9 The Visible Invisible
  • 10 Crisis in Fevers
  • Conclusion
  • Biography
  • Index
  • About the author

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Michel Foucault was born on October 15, 1926, in Poitiers, France, and was educated at the Sorbonne, in Paris. He taught at colleges all across Europe, including the Universities of Lill, Uppsala, Hamburg, and Warsaw, before returning to France. There he taught at the University of Paris and the College of France, where he served as the chairman of History of Systems of Thought until his death.

Regarded as one of the great French thinkers of the twentieth century, Foucault's interest was in the human sciences, areas such as psychiatry, language, literature, and intellectual history. He made significant contributions not just to the fields themselves, but to the way these areas are studied, and is particularly known for his work on the development of twentieth-century attitudes toward knowledge, sexuality, illness, and madness.

Foucault's initial study of these subjects used an archaeological method, which involved sifting through seemingly unrelated scholarly minutia of a certain time period in order to reconstruct, analyze, and classify the age according to the types of knowledge that were possible during that time. This approach was used in Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, for which Foucault received a medal from France's Center of Scientific Research in 1961, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, and The Archaeology of Knowledge.

Foucault also wrote Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison, a study of the ways that society's views of crime and punishment have developed, and The History of Sexuality, which was intended to be a six-volume series. Before he could begin the final two volumes, however, Foucault died of a neurological disorder in 1984.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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