In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation.
In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsc.
And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.
Disease became subject to new rules of classification.
The body became something that could be mapped.
For the first time, Medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics.
In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation