The Bank is the monster that has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.
The Bank is something more than men. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
The Bank is an institution that does nothing positive for anybody. It takes care of itself, is first in with its fees and first out when there's trouble.
The Clinic is the institutionalization of the medical gaze a hearing gaze and a speaking gaze. Clinical experience represents a moment of balance between speech and spectacle.
The Clinic is not just a place to diagnose and treat sick persons... it is also a way of thinking and speaking, is a discursive practice that links health with knowledge.
The Clinic is a discourse that enables us to think about disease when we make statements about health and death. It operates not only in its familiar textual domain, the medical journal, but in pictures of the scene at the sickbed, and poetry about disease.
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