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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. 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.
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About the author
DAVID ARMSTRONG is Reader in Sociology as applied to Medicine in the Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Medical School at King's College London. He has published widely on the sociology of medical knowledge, including Political Anatomy of the Body: Medical Knowledge in the Twentieth Century.
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Book Title: A New History of Identity
Authors: David Armstrong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403907028
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-96892-5Published: 15 March 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42884-7Published: 01 January 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-0702-8Published: 15 March 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 213
Topics: Sociology of the Body, Anatomy, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, general, History of Medicine