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A Sociohistory of Cerebrovascular Disease and the Development of Modern Stroke Medicine : a Foucauldian Analysis.
This book examines historiographical accounts of the cerebrovascular condition using a socio-historical approach influenced by the writings of Michel Foucault in an attempt to understand how stroke medicine has emerged in its current form.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Stroke and apoplexy : explorations of the history of medicine
- Socio-historical approaches to the study of health and illness
- Methodology : interpreting and applying Foucault's methods
- Epidemics and nosologies
- Apoplexy and official statistics : the rise of regulation
- New medical technologies : regulation and the emergence of 'stroke medicine'
- Technologies of the self in apoplexy and stroke : risk or consequence?
- 'The mysterious apoplexies and strokes' : challenges and contradictions in stroke medicine.