A New History of Identity

by David 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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349428841
• ISBN13: 9781349428847
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"