Abstract:

Foucault’s medical archaeology analyzes the cognitive premise and historical conditions of the birth of clinical medicine from the perspective of the spatialization of disease in terms of body space and social space, and the discourse construction of the new disease experience of clinical medicine from clinical gaze. It also examines how the gaze of death in pathological anatomy lays the empirical foundation for the science of human beings in the 19^th century. The concepts of spatialization, discourse, and death as the empirical foundation of the science of human beings in Foucault’s medical archaeology have a general methodological significance of crossing the disciplinary boundaries between the history of science, intellectual history and social history.

Key words: spatialization of disease, discourse, clinical gaze, death, science of human beings