The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception 19th century fantasy • Thompson served as the

• Thompson served as the Historical Consultant on the Academy Award-nominated documentary feature ATTICA

and feels like an outsider from the jump

The debut novel from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro

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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception 19th century fantasy • Thompson served as theAuthor 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