Cover Image

A new history of identity : a sociology of medical knowledge /

Show other versions (1)

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&#...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armstrong, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
Edition:1 st.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Identity (Psychology)
Medicine > History.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Similar Items

Similar Items