| A New History of Identity 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Armstrong, D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349428841 ISBN-13: 9781349428847 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Social Science | Sociology - General - Medical | Anatomy |
| Dewey: 306.461 |
| Lexile Measure: 1380 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.64 lbs) 213 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |