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El nacimiento de la clínica
"El nacimiento de la clínica", publicada en Francia en 1963, es un ensayo revelador acerca de la observación médica y sus métodos durante un breve pero fecundo período en el cual, en la práctica clínica, la mirada se tornó criterio de verdad y racionalidad. Hasta ese momento, el saber médico hablaba un lenguaje sin apoyo perceptivo. "El nuevo espíritu -explica Michel Foucault- no es otra cosa que una reorganización sintáctica de la enfermedad, en la cual los límites de lo visible y de lo invisible siguen un nuevo trazo". La enfermedad y aun la muerte, antes opacas, se ofrecen ahora a la claridad de la mirada.
El libro aborda además dos temas centrales en la conformación de la clínica como la reorganización del ámbito hospitalario y la adquisición, por parte del enfermo, de un estatuto propio en la sociedad. Constituye así un valioso esfuerzo por dilucidar no sólo el surgimiento de la medicina como ciencia, sino también el de una nueva experiencia de la enfermedad.
El libro aborda además dos temas centrales en la conformación de la clínica como la reorganización del ámbito hospitalario y la adquisición, por parte del enfermo, de un estatuto propio en la sociedad. Constituye así un valioso esfuerzo por dilucidar no sólo el surgimiento de la medicina como ciencia, sino también el de una nueva experiencia de la enfermedad.
287 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 1, 2013
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Michel Foucault
766 books6,540 followersPaul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, Marxism and critical theory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology. After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961). After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories exemplified a historiographical technique Foucault was developing called "archaeology".
From 1966 to 1968, Foucault lectured at the University of Tunis before returning to France, where he became head of the philosophy department at the new experimental university of Paris VIII. Foucault subsequently published The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). In 1970, Foucault was admitted to the Collège de France, a membership he retained until his death. He also became active in several left-wing groups involved in campaigns against racism and human rights abuses and for penal reform. Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society.
Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS; he became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease. His partner Daniel Defert founded the AIDES charity in his memory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology. After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961). After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories exemplified a historiographical technique Foucault was developing called "archaeology".
From 1966 to 1968, Foucault lectured at the University of Tunis before returning to France, where he became head of the philosophy department at the new experimental university of Paris VIII. Foucault subsequently published The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). In 1970, Foucault was admitted to the Collège de France, a membership he retained until his death. He also became active in several left-wing groups involved in campaigns against racism and human rights abuses and for penal reform. Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society.
Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS; he became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease. His partner Daniel Defert founded the AIDES charity in his memory.
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March 8, 2025
Habla de la historia de la medicina y de su conformación como ciencis y como profesión, libro que todo médico debería leer para tener en cuenta de donde vienen algunas ideas y conceptos que repercuten en la práctica cotidiana, cuestionarlas y repensarlas.
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