The Birth of the Clinic
@inproceedings{Foucault1963TheBO,
title={The Birth of the Clinic},
author={Michel Foucault},
year={1963}
}1. Spaces and Classes 2. A Political Consciousness 3. The Free Field 4. The Old Age of the Clinic 5. The Lesson of the Hospitals 6. Signs and Cases 7. Seeing and Knowing 8. Open Up a Few Corpses 9. The Visible Invisible 10. Crisis in Fevers
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