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Overview
Medical texts provide a powerful means of accessing contemporary perceptions of illness and through them assumptions about the nature of the body and identity. By mapping these perceptions, from their nineteenth-century focus on illness located in a biological body through to their 'discovery' of the psycho-social patient of the late twentieth century, a history of identity, both physical and psychological, is revealed.
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- ISBN-13: 9781349428847
- ISBN-10: 1349428841
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: January 2002
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.51 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.64 pounds
- Page Count: 213
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