A New History of Identity

Armstrong, D.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-03-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333968925

DOI: 10.1057/9781403907028

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 213