Tag: Taylor Tso
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Mental health in Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic and the limits of medical positivism
Taylor Tso St. Louis, Missouri, United States The Madhouse (Casa de locos). Painting by Francisco de Goya. In The Birth of the Clinic, Michel Foucault traces the history of our present-day understanding of disease. One of the most significant and more recent problems this understanding had to confront was the pre-nineteenth century outlook that…