Birth of the Clinic An Archaeology of Medical Perception

"['The Birth of the Clinic'] continues [Foucault's] brilliant history, not of ideas as such, but of the structures of perception. In the earlier study ['Madness and Civilization'], Foucault analyzed the origins of the insane asylum, a development that paralleled the 'birth of the clinic.'...As usual, his writing is difficult, the argument hard to follow, the arrangement of chapters seemingly arbitrary and the whole very difficult to summarize....[But] it should be unnecessary to add that Foucault's work is indispensable for cultural historians, amply rewarding the effort required to understand it."Foucault, Michel is the author of 'Birth of the Clinic An Archaeology of Medical Perception', published 1994 under ISBN 9780679753346 and ISBN 0679753346.