D. Armstrong

Gebundenes Buch

A New History of Identity

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

DAVID ARMSTRONG is Reader in Sociology as applied to Medicine in the Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Medical School at King's College London. He has published widely on the sociology of medical knowledge, including Political Anatomy of the Body: Medical Knowledge in the Twentieth Century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-96892-5
• 2002 edition
• Seitenzahl: 213
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780333968925
• ISBN-10: 0333968921
• Artikelnr.: 21592383