# The Birth of the Clinic

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- Book: [The Birth of the Clinic](https://www.bookquiver.com/michel-foucault/the-birth-of-the-clinic) ([The Birth of the Clinic.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michel-foucault/the-birth-of-the-clinic.md))
- Authors: [Michel Foucault](https://www.bookquiver.com/michel-foucault)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7975-334-6
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1994-03-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...