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Illness as a work of thought : a Foucauldian perspective on psychosomatics /

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 contribu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Greco, Monica, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998
Series:International library of sociology.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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