ABSTRACT
Revista centro-american de Ciencias de la Salud, No. 10, mai-août 1978, 93–104. A French translation appears in Dits et écrits, Vol. III, 508–21. This was the third lecture given in the course of medicine which took place in October 1974 at The Institute of Social Medicine, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The text of the first two lectures appeared in the Revista centro-american de Ciencias de la Salud, Nos 3 & 6. They appear in English as ‘Crisis of Medicine or Anti-Medicine?’ Translated by Edgar C. Knowlton Jr., William J. King, and Clare O’Farrell. Foucault Studies, No. 1, 5–19; and ‘The Birth of Social Medicine.’ Translated by Robert Hurley. In Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954–1984 Volume Two. Edited by James Faubion and others. London: Allen Lane, 2000, 134–56.
