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ISBN: 0819562920
Publisher: WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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| Weight | 0.51 kg |
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| ISBN | 0819562920 |
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| Publication Date | 1996 |
| Pages | 372 |
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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.
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 attitude–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.
ISBN: 9780679753346 – Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
ISBN: 9780679753346
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
Provides information about the Universe – the magic formula that Einstein spent his life searching for and failed to find. In this elegant book, the author challenges the quest for ultimate explanation.
ISBN: 009998380X
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ISBN: 0947593128
Publisher: GREAT BRITAIN
ISBN: Z2842 – Hardback
Publisher: PROGRESSIVE PUBLISHERS
ISBN: Z2842
Publisher: PROGRESSIVE PUBLISHERS
