| Title:
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A NEW HISTORY OF IDENTITY
A SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE |
| By: |
David Armstrong |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333968921 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333968925 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
15 March, 2002 |
| Pages: |
213 |
| Description: |
This text maps perceptions of illness in medical texts from their 19th century focus on illness located in a biological body through to their "discovery" of the psycho-social patient of the late 20th century. In this way, a history of identity, both physical and psychological, is revealed. |
| Synopsis: |
Medical texts provide a powerful means of accessing contemporary perceptions of illness and through them assumptions about the nature of the body and identity. By mapping these perceptions, from their nineteenth-century focus on illness located in a biological body through to their 'discovery' of the psycho-social patient of the late twentieth century, a history of identity, both physical and psychological, is revealed. |
| Illustrations: |
biography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |