Given below are two statements:

Statement I: According to Michel Foucault, the French Revolution created grounds for The Birth of the Clinic.

Statement II: Foucault mentions that the doctors started caring for the body of the patients the way priests cared for the soul of the sinners.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

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UGC NET Paper 2: English 13 Oct 2022 Shift 2

Answer 1

The correct answer is Both Statement I and Statement II are true.

Key Points

In his book The Birth of the Clinic (1963), Michel Foucault demonstrates how social and cultural attitudes—in this instance, the atmosphere surrounding the French Revolution—have a significant influence on what we consider to be an objective science.
In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics.
The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.
His book sheds new light on the roots of our current conceptions of health and sickness, life and mortality, and is brilliant, provocative, and incredibly well-read.

Therefore, the correct option is option 1.