| A New History of Identity 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Armstrong, D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333968921 ISBN-13: 9780333968925 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: 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 19th century focus on illness located in a biological body through to their 'discovery' of the psycho-social patient of the late 20th century, a history of identity, both physical and psychological, is revealed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Social Science | Sociology - General - Medical | Anatomy |
| Dewey: 306.461 |
| LCCN: 2001058213 |
| Lexile Measure: 1380 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.08" W x 8.36" (0.99 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. |