| Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body Revised Edition Contributor(s): Jones, Colin (Editor), Porter, Roy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415183413 ISBN-13: 9780415183413 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $49.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: i Reassessing Foucault /i critically examines the implications of Foucault's work for a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences. Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his ideas about prisons, hospitals, madness and disease, and his thinking about the body. They engage with principal aspects of his thought and relevance, and suggest ways in which Foucault's influence will continue to dominate cultural history and the social sciences. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) - Medical | History |
| Dewey: 303.3 |
| Series: Studies in the Social History of Medicine |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.68 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences. Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his ideas about prisons, hospitals, madness and disease, and his thinking about the body. The book also suggests ways in which Foucault's influence will continue to dominate cultural history and the social sciences. |
