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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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Abstract:
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.
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