TY  - BOOK
AU  - Armstrong,David
TI  - A new history of identity: a sociology of medical knowledge 
SN  - 0333968921
AV  - R133. A75 2002
U1  - 306.461 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Medicine
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index; 1; Prologue --; 2; Constructing the Body --; 3; Negotiating Death --; 4; Discovering Origins --; 5; Making the Body Move --; 6; Creating a Social Identity --; 7; Invoking Subjectivity --; 8; Instilling Agency --; 9; Confessing Death --; 10; Dimensionalizing Identity --; 11; Becoming at Risk --; 12; Death of the Old Hospital --; 13; Birth of Primary Care --; 14; Ecce homo --; 15; Identity of the Observer --; 16; The Subject of Knowledge --; 17; A Note on Methodology
N2  - "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
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