A New History of Identity

by David E. Armstrong

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333968921
• ISBN13: 9780333968925
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.4"