... cured only if he is first liberated. "[13] Foucault associated such political views with the agenda for hospital and university reform, which influenced the shape of the new medical knowledge. Chapters 4 and 5 looked at the state of the hospital in late 18th century France. Foucault criticized the way the history of medicine has been written for proliferating myths about the origins of ... , Foucault went into some depth to explicate his approach to the philosophy of history. In Discipline and Punish, Foucault famously singled out Jeremy Bentham's panopticon, a late 18th century archite...

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