ABSTRACT
The formation of the modern clinic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries consisted of a composite of very heterogeneous practices, discourses, and mechanisms. The modern clinic arose when the system reduced this diversity to a single and sovereign policy, bio-politics. The term classical clinic is used in the same sense that Foucault used the expression classical period, to designate the establishment, since the seventeenth century, of insanity, or madness, as an object of discourse. Clinical practice in modernity, also includes all those medical practices based on the weight of the body and its secretions as well as on the different astrological systems combined with practices of healing in modernity and acts of healing practiced by absolutist kings. The look that organized the clinic that emerged during the eighteenth century gives geometric form and constructs figures in space that authors exemplified by using Kant’s anthropology.
