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TODAY I introduce Michel Foucault. He described what he called ‘the gaze’. By this he meant that around the end of the 18th century, the nascent medical profession was gathering enough evidence to make predictions about the causes of disease. Doctors then took little heed of patients’ accounts, instead preferring to rely on their own observations, hence ‘the gaze’.
Learning Disability Practice. 13, 5, 8-8. doi: 10.7748/ldp.13.5.8.s10
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