The Birth of the Clinic

The Birth of the Clinic

Cover of the first edition
Author	Michel Foucault
Original title	Naissance de la clinique
Translator	Alan Sheridan
Country	France
Language	French
Published	1963 (Presses universitaires de France) 1973 (in English)
Media type	Print
OCLC	12214239
Preceded by	Madness and Civilization
Followed by	The Order of Things

The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (Naissance de la clinique: une archéologie du regard médical, 1963), by Michel Foucault, presents the development of la clinique, the teaching hospital, as a medical institution, identifies and describes the concept of Le regard médical ("the medical gaze"), and the epistemic re-organisation of the research structures of medicine in the production of medical knowledge, at the end of the eighteenth century. Although originally limited to the academic discourses of post-modernism and post-structuralism, the medical gaze term is used in graduate medicine and social work.^[1]