Regular medical examination reordered hospital authority and produced a new knowledge
Evidence
The old form of inspection, irregular and rapid, was transformed into a regular observation that placed the patient in a situation of almost perpetual examination. This had two consequences: in the internal hierarchy, the physician, hitherto an external element, begins to gain over the religious staff and to relegate them to a clearly specified, but subordinate role in the technique of the examination; the category of the ‘nurse’ then appears; while the hospital itself, which was once little more than a poorhouse, was to become a place of training and of the correlation of knowledge; it represented a reversal therefore of the power relations and the constitution of a corpus of knowledge. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 285
Categorization
- XREF: The nurse category emerging from medical examination parallels how surveillance technologies create new professional roles — relevant to reader’s broader panoptic theme. — connects to: The supervision of normality thrived under the joint shelter of medicine and law — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 452
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Broader Connections
- The supervision of normality thrived under the joint shelter of medicine and law
#expands(0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 452