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A New History of Identity
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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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- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Prologue
- 2 Constructing the Body
- 3 Negotiating Death
- 4 Discovering Origins
- 5 Making the Body Move
- 6 Creating a Social Identity
- 7 Invoking Subjectivity
- 8 Instilling Agency
- 9 Confessing Death
- 10 Dimensionalizing Identity
- 11 Becoming at Risk
- 12 Death of the Old Hospital
- 13 Birth of Primary Care
- 14 Ecce homo
- 15 Identity of the Observer
- 16 The Subject of Knowledge
- 17 A Note on Methodology
- References
- Index