Gazing love

Author: Yu Qizhi
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: This book primarily analyzes the philosophical perspectives on the relationship between medicine and social history presented in Foucault's The Birth of the Clinic. It elucidates how Foucault examines the possible conditions (knowledge, literature, society, history, environment, politics, economy, institutions, disease, regard) of clinical medicine and its medical practices in the late 18th and early 19th centuries from the perspectives of historical view and epistemology. The author focuses on "regard" (regard) as a fundamental observational method in nature, humanity, and society (perception technique), and clarifies the secrets and will by which it plays a role in the co-evolution of society and medicine. The history of medicine and its medical institutions, as well as the historiography (narrative history) of their interpretation, are integral components of the long river of social history. Reflection on this history is philosophy, and contemplating the development of social history through the history of medicine is a highly commendable approach. From a certain perspective, one can say that the history of medicine is a mirror for understanding social history.