The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception 19th century fantasy "With its gentle affirmations

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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception 19th century fantasy "With its gentle affirmationsAuthor Contributor(s): Foucault, Michel Publisher: Vintage Date: 3 29 1994 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW 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