| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 189 pages). |
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data file rda |
| Series |
International library of sociology |
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International library of sociology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 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. |
| Summary |
This book is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods to the study of illness and modernity. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. (OCoLC)fst01427415
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Medicine, Psychosomatic.
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Medicine, Psychosomatic. (OCoLC)fst01015356
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Greco, Monica, 1966- Illness as a work of thought. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 (DLC) 97032080 |
| ISBN |
9780415178495 (alkaline paper) |
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0415178495 (alkaline paper) |
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0203004574 |
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9780203004579 |
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0415178495 |
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