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*seth m. holmes, the clinical gaze in the practice of migrant health: mexican. Migrants in the united states, social science & medicine 74. 6 (2012): 873-81. Keywords: social determinants of health and sickness. Social determinants of health are the social and economic conditions that influence individual or group differences in their health status. Clinicians cannot seem to move beyond the clinical gaze and acknowledge the social determinants of health and sickness and instead might try to explain it biologically or behaviorally. Foucault expresses that there was an 18th century shift from classificatory medicine to anatomo-clinical medicine . We no longer classified the disease by the symptoms but by the part of the body they affect. This is all based on the physicians and all the tests that they will do. For example, heart disease and lung cancer (disease is now focused on where in the body it is).
