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A new history of identity : a sociology of medical knowledge
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A new history of identity : a sociology of medical knowledge

Author: David Armstrong
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book maps the emergence of the figure of the modern 'person' from its anatomical origins in the nineteenth century to its psychological and reflexive individuality in the early twenty-first century. Using medical texts as a means of accessing contemporary perceptions of the patient - for example, through changing conceptualizations of illnesses, modes of treatment, techniques of examination and patterns of  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Armstrong
ISBN: 0333968921 9780333968925
OCLC Number: 48557605
Description: x, 213 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Prologue --
2. Constructing the Body --
3. Negotiating Death --
4. Discovering Origins --
5. Making the Body Move --
6. Creating a Social Identity --
7. Invoking Subjectivity --
8. Instilling Agency --
9. Confessing Death --
10. Dimensionalizing Identity --
11. Becoming at Risk --
12. Death of the Old Hospital --
13. Birth of Primary Care --
14. Ecce homo --
15. Identity of the Observer --
16. The Subject of Knowledge --
17. A Note on Methodology.
Responsibility: David Armstrong.
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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  Read more...

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