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Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body

By Roy Porter , Colin Jones

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1994
ISBN
0415075424, 9780415075428
LCC
HM22.F82 F697 1994
Open Library ID
OL1420729M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
733 kB (750084 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Pages
240\237
Topic
Medicine
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences. Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his ideas about prisons, hospitals, madness and disease, and his thinking about the body. The book also suggests ways in which Foucault's influence will continue to dominate cultural history and the social sciences.

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