A sociohistory of cerebrovascular disease and the development of modern stroke medicine
Subtitle: a Foucauldian analysis
By: Katharine Daneski ; foreword by Ian Rees Jones
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780773436596
Subjects: Cerebrovascular disease; History; Chemotherapy; Social medicine; Stroke; History, Modern 1601-; Medical Sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stroke and apoplexy : explorations of the history of medicine; title: Socio-historical approaches to the study of health and illness; title: Methodology : interpreting and applying Foucault's methods; title: Epidemics and nosologies; title: Apoplexy and official statistics : the rise of regulation; title: New medical technologies : regulation and the emergence of 'stroke medicine'; title: Technologies of the self in apoplexy and stroke : risk or consequence?; title: 'The mysterious apoplexies and strokes' : challenges and contradictions in stroke medicine.