Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body

by Colin Jones and Roy Porter

Book Overview

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences.
Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his ideas about prisons, hospitals, madness and disease,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415075424
• ISBN13: 9780415075428
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"