The Birth of the Clinic
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception, a 1963 book by Michel Foucault, presents the development of la clinique as a medical institution. The work identifies and describes the c
Cover of the first edition
The Doctor by Sir Luke Fildes (1891)
Gaze
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The gaze, in the figurative sense, is an individual's awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself. Since the 20th century, the concept and the social applications of the ga
The Birth of the Clinic
…development of la clinique (the teaching hospital) as a medical institution. The work identifies and describes the concept of le regard médical (lit. 'the medical gaze'), and the epistemic re-organisation of the research structures of medicine in the production of medical knowledge at the end of the eighteenth century…
The Conjurer, by Hieronymus Bosch, shows the bending figure looking forward, steadily, intently, and with fixed attention, while the other figures in the painting look in various directions, some outside the painting.