SOC 7108 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Panopticon, Retina, List Of Muppets
5 Mar 2019
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The author makes a statement himself regarding how modern medicine has created. The cultural history of modern medicine identifies the orientation of the body as a key feature of its emergence as a discipline. The epistemological break that marks the foundation for modern medicine is being able to inspect the patient"s body known as clinical gaze which was a part of technology and surveillance. The patients body became legible in the political sense with symptoms being matched to pathological means. This new discipline in anatomy allowed for the doctor to treat disease in regard to localization and as a site requiring inspection tracing to specific organs of the body. The body went from passive to one that is social. (think of the panopticon as this is mention here as the panopticon gaze). It is now extended in terms that every part of the body and organ may be inspected and sampled meaning nothing is no longer localized or discrete.
