by Michel Foucault · Siglo XXI · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789682300684
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«El nacimiento de la clínica» is Michel Foucault's essay on the philosophy and history of medicine, published by Siglo XXI in paperback.
In this archaeology of the medical gaze, Foucault analyses how, between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, medicine came to read illness in the body rather than in books. He studies the formation of the clinic, the relationship between power and knowledge, and the reorganisation of the perception of the body, life and death.
The book was originally published in 1963 as «Naissance de la clinique»; the Spanish translation is by Francisca Perujo. The Spanish edition has 304 pages.
Aimed at students and readers of philosophy, history of medicine and sociology, as well as those approaching Foucault's thought.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.
