A New History of Identity

D Armstrong author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '02

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Medical texts provide a powerful means of accessing contemporary perceptions of illness and through them assumptions about the nature of the body and identity.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.

ISBN: 9781349428847

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213 pages

1st ed. 2002