Following "History of Madness in Classical Era",
Another important work by French ideological master Michel Foucault,
The original French version has been re-translated.
Another important work by French ideological master Michel Foucault,
The original French version has been re-translated.
"This book is about space, speech and death; it's about seeing."
--Michel Foucault
"The Birth of Clinic" is one of Foucault's early important works. In this book, Foucault examines the origins of clinical medicine, focusing particularly on the transition from classical medicine to modern medicine and the rapid transformation of epistemology from the 18th to the 19th century. As the French Revolution brought the demand for liberation into various professions and corners, it caused institutional chaos and disastrous consequences. However, it also shaped new medical spaces and medical concepts. Many of the basic concepts in modern medicine regarding the nature of health, disease, and death were shaped at this time.
In this book, Foucault discusses the interaction and transformation between clinical medicine, anatomy, and death. Through the study of death, clinical medicine understands that "death" is not the end, but a process of time. "Human" has become the object of science. The truth about it is finally found through language in the process of cutting open the corpse with a scalpel. own concept. Since then, this book has echoed with "History of Madness in the Classical Era": Westerners can only find an outlet through the act of erasing themselves: the experience of "irrationality" produces all psychology and the possibilities of psychology itself; The integration of death in medical thought produces a medicine that becomes itself a science of the individual.
After Foucault started the archeology of knowledge in "The History of Madness in the Classical Age", "The Birth of the Clinic" not only continues a more in-depth examination of the discourse structure, but also foreshadows the next work "Words and Things".
