ch. 2
Medicine must no longer be confined to a body of techniques for curing ills and of the knowledge that they require; it will also embrace a knowledge of healthy man, that is a study of non-sick man and a definition of the [normal]* man.
*translated as 'model', F. uses 'normal' earlier, and stresses the normalizing mission of this new, clinical medicine
ch. 3
The birth of modern medicine in 1790s France is:
a spontaneous and deeply rooted conversation between the requirements of political ideology and those of medical technology.
trns. by AM Sheridan Smith. Pantheon. 1973.