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.
| ISBN: | 9781403907028 |
| Publication date: | 15th March 2002 |
| Author: | Armstrong, D. |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |