A new history of identity : a sociology of medical knowledge /
Armstrong, David, 1947 June 3-
A new history of identity : a sociology of medical knowledge / David Armstrong. - x, 213 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.
Prologue -- Constructing the Body -- Negotiating Death -- Discovering Origins -- Making the Body Move -- Creating a Social Identity -- Invoking Subjectivity -- Instilling Agency -- Confessing Death -- Dimensionalizing Identity -- Becoming at Risk -- Death of the Old Hospital -- Birth of Primary Care -- Ecce homo -- Identity of the Observer -- The Subject of Knowledge -- A Note on Methodology. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
"This book maps the emergence of the figure of the modern 'person' from its anatomical origins in the nineteenth century to its psychological and reflexive individuality in the early twenty-first century. Using medical texts as a means of accessing contemporary perceptions of the patient - for example, through changing conceptualizations of illnesses, modes of treatment, techniques of examination and patterns of health care - the text provides a history of the process of identity construction. The result is an account of the invention of Man - physical, mental and behavioural - over the last century or so, together with an examination of the changing ways in which knowledge of Man's identity has become established."--BOOK JACKET.
0333968921 9780333968925
2001058213
Social medicine.
Identity (Psychology)
Medicine--History
R133. / A75 2002
306.461
A new history of identity : a sociology of medical knowledge / David Armstrong. - x, 213 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.
Prologue -- Constructing the Body -- Negotiating Death -- Discovering Origins -- Making the Body Move -- Creating a Social Identity -- Invoking Subjectivity -- Instilling Agency -- Confessing Death -- Dimensionalizing Identity -- Becoming at Risk -- Death of the Old Hospital -- Birth of Primary Care -- Ecce homo -- Identity of the Observer -- The Subject of Knowledge -- A Note on Methodology. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
"This book maps the emergence of the figure of the modern 'person' from its anatomical origins in the nineteenth century to its psychological and reflexive individuality in the early twenty-first century. Using medical texts as a means of accessing contemporary perceptions of the patient - for example, through changing conceptualizations of illnesses, modes of treatment, techniques of examination and patterns of health care - the text provides a history of the process of identity construction. The result is an account of the invention of Man - physical, mental and behavioural - over the last century or so, together with an examination of the changing ways in which knowledge of Man's identity has become established."--BOOK JACKET.
0333968921 9780333968925
2001058213
Social medicine.
Identity (Psychology)
Medicine--History
R133. / A75 2002
306.461