UID:
edocfu_9958070432402883
Format:
1 online resource (198 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-68400-2
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1-134-68401-0
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1-280-18230-X
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0-203-26650-1
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0-203-00457-4
Series Statement:
International library of sociology
Content:
Illness as a Work of Thought is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods of the study of illness and modernity. From medicine and psychiatry to psychology and the social sciences, Monica Greco explores what the history of these different disciplines contributes to what we understand by the term 'psychosomatics' and analyses how the study of psychosomatic illness can transform the way we think of illness, subjectivity and the ethics and politics of health.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The symptoms of truth: a historical search; Hide and seek: medicine and 'somatization'; The vital and the social; Does psychosomatics exist? An introduction; The dispersion of psychosomatics; Interpreting the bodily sign; Interpreting the signs of embodiment; Who is the subject of somatic pathology?; Conclusions: a political double-edge; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-75740-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-17849-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203004579
