Nascita della clinica. Una archeologia dello sguardo medico

I finished this on the bus the other day and a couple things come to mind: 1. It's one of his most approachable, even if it is a bit clunky in spots. 2. I'd recommend reading it before On the Order of Things as it's a good introduction to his study of epistemological change. 3. There's some very sharp Leggi tutto

سه ماه خوندنش طول کشید و چه سه ماه شیرینی بود.

This is one of those books in which it feels like the author is intentionally obscure -- almost in a self-aggrandizing way. To use one of Foucault's favorite (or at least most frequent) criticisms against others (in this text), this book is needlessly prolix; he throws that word around like it's goi Leggi tutto

In "Reading Capital" Althusser defines philosophical work as an intervention in science, an exposing of what the object of a science is. "The Birth of the Clinic" is a philosophical work in this sense. "The Birth of the Clinic" does not make as clear use of the power/knowledge paradigm that character Leggi tutto

Well, that was certainly a thrilling ride through the medicine of the ca. 1760s—1820s. I wasn't able to read it all at once — several tries ended in exhaustion and pretending that the book does not even exist :) I always needed to take a deep breath before diving back into it — it's a dense text. Th Leggi tutto