Duden, 3, summarizing Foucault: "It was only toward the end of the eighteenth century that the modern body was created as the effect and object of medical examination."
4: "Foucault repeatedly pointed out that the impact of this new clinical discourse about the body can be seen in two ways by the historian: it repressed, censored, masked, abstracted, and alienated modes of perception: at the same time it had the power to create new realities, to constitute new objects, to introduce new, inescapable rituals into daily life, rituals whose participants becaume epistemologically dependent on the newly created objects."
see Birth of the Clinic