A New History of Identity
Subtitle: A Sociology of Medical Knowledge
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave
Published: September 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780333968925
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; History of medicine; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Topics in philosophy; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; General; Social Science / General; History; Identity (Psychology); Medicine; Social medicine
First sentence: In the beginning there was no Man.
Description: "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."--Jacket.