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 19th century focus on illness located in a biological body through to their 'discovery' of the psycho-social patient of the late 20th century, a history of identity, both physical and psychological, is revealed.
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David Armstrong is at the School of Medicine, King's College London.
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corporal space, new general practice, practitioners editorial, pathological death, anatomical identity, sanitary science, new creation story, anatomical body, new public health, pathological lesion, space between bodies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New History, Old Hospital, Noble Chamberlain, Ministry of Health, Apostolic Function, Birth of the Clinic, Interdepartmental Committee Report, Board of Education, Department of Health New!
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- The Peckham Experiment: A Study of the Living Structure of Society by Innes H. Pearse on page 74, page 137, and Back Matter
- What Is History? by E H Carr on page 193, and Back Matter
- Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (Dover Books on Biology) by Florence Nightingale on page 194, and Back Matter
- The Birth of the Clinic (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault on page 176, and page 189
- Other Side by H. Becker on page 53, and page 198
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- Constructing Autism: Unravelling the 'Truth' and Understanding the Social by Majia Holmer Nadesan in Back Matter
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