Birth of the ClinicMichel Foucault
Birth of the Clinic
by Michel Foucault · first published 2012
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Look at Foucault's book "Birth of the Clinic" to see why the wealthy need less wealthy people to get health care to drive the volume that makes possible the services that the wealthy can afford. For instance, if you were a billionaire maybe $1,000,000…
on “Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfair and Inefficient?” ↗…as in a rock band or a meal bundle at a fast food restaurant) are $10 words in English. The writing and translation of early Foucault are great (drop what you're doing an read Discipline and Punish or Birth of the Clinic) and I've got a soft spot for Baudrillard between System of Objects and Simulacra and Simulation not to mention Alain Badiou's perfection of Derrida's strategy of Being and Event which spoke to me in…
on “Book Review: Problems Have No Sex – Caroline Haslett (1949)” ↗Nice! I wouldn’t describe the early Foucault as ‘rebarbative’, the common translations of Birth of the Clinic and Discipline and Punish are a pleasure to read although the volumes of The Uses of Pleasure are not —- he had a little too much exposure to Derrida. [1] But I’ve been saying that LLMs would bring a…
on “LLMs show cultural theory was right about the death of the author” ↗Foucault? In my mind he's a conservative. His early books (Discipline and Punish and Birth of the Clinic) are brilliant and cover the ground that anarchists like Murray Bookchin do, debunking them all the way. Clinic also explains why health care is never going to seem affordable because, even if Bill…
on “Maybe Don't Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani” ↗…they got to trade health insurance for something that cost about as much such as * two months of vacation a year * free housing for life, etc. many would pick the later. Michael Foucault, in his "birth of the clinic" points out that rich people who could afford (say) Heart Bypass Surgery couldn't get it unless somehow other people who couldn't afford the surgery could get it, because otherwise the surgery wouldn't…
on “Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018” ↗…about "normal" and more about "average" person. The history of normality and curing/fixing abnormality has been dissected by Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison" and "The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception".
on “How the Idea of a ‘Normal’ Person Got Invented” ↗