The modernity of the practice and beliefs was in existent and the theory of Foucault is somewhat justified. .

             But how was it accepted? .

             "The postmodern complaint is that although the moderns threw off the yoke of medieval superstitions, they developed their own myths, and the moderns bought these new myths with little critical questioning. (Lois Shawyer 1998)".

             The Author relates that, one of those myths had to do with the wisdom of doctors.   According to the myths of modernity, doctors were prudent.  They could spot precedent disturbance into the certainty of things.  We could relate to them our tribulations and their wisdom would lead us to a better life.  Doctors attributed as the carrier of wisdom breaking boundaries of our culture thus imploring the relationship between a good life and good health. .

             In the Classical Period, the diseased body itself became the central point of medical gaze, here we see a momentous shift in medicine. As stated by Foucault as he relates: .

             "How can the free gaze that medicine, and, through it, the government, must turn upon the citizens be equipped and competent without being embroiled in the esotericism of knowledge and the rigidity of social privilege?" p. 45 .

             In this work of Foucault, he used the term gaze as a technical term, wherein the word exemplifies the observation, findings and clinical analysis of a doctor. As Lois Shawwer explains in her commentary on the works of Foucault, as:.

             "The people of modernity thought that with this gaze the physican could penetrate illusion and see through to the underlying reality, that the physician had the power to see the hidden truth. ".

             Through the rigid exposure of these medical practitioners to their patients through internship and practicing apprentices they have acquire the ability to make conclusions and analysis just by gazing through their patients. They were subjected to scrutinizing actual patients and learning from actual experiences communicating and conveying knowledge a far cry from .