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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Series: | International library of sociology.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 contributes to what we understand by the term 'psychosomatics' and analyses how the study of psychosomatic illness can transform the way we think of illness, subjectivity and the ethics and politics of health. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203266501 9780203266502 |