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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Daneski, Katharine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Foucault, Michel, > 1926-1984.
Foucault, Michel, > 1926-1984
Cerebrovascular disease > History.
Cerebrovascular disease > Chemotherapy > History.
Social medicine.
Stroke > history
History, Modern 1601-
Sociology, Medical
Accidents vasculaires cérébraux > Histoire.
Accidents vasculaires cérébraux > Chimiothérapie > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 1500-
Sociologie médicale.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Nervous System (incl. Brain)
Cerebrovascular disease.
Cerebrovascular disease > Chemotherapy.
Medicine.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Neurology.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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