Reassessing Foucault : power, medicine and the body / edited by Colin Jones and Roy Porter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Colin, 1947-

Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.

Series:

Studies in the social history of medicine.

Studies in the social history of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel--Contributions in sociology.

Foucault, Michel.

Power (Social sciences).

Associations, institutions, etc.

Social medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences. Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his ideas about prisons, hospitals, madness and disease, and his thinking about the body. The book also suggests ways in which Foucault's influence will continue to dominate cultural history

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE/KNOWLEDGE OF BODIES; ON ANTI-MEDICINE AND CLINICAL REASON; MEDICINE, HISTORY AND THE PRESENT; INVENTING MOUTHS: DISCIPLINARY POWER AND DENTISTRY; POWER AND HUMANITY, OR FOUCAULT AMONG THE HISTORIANS; BODIES IN SPACE: FOUCAULT'S ACCOUNT OF DISCIPLINARY POWER; APPLYING FOUCAULT: SOME PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN THE APPLICATION OF FOUCAULT'S METHODS TO THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN PRISONS; FOUCAULT'S THEORY OF DISCOURSE AND HUMAN AGENCY

THE RECEPTION OF MICHEL FOUCAULT'S IDEAS ON SOCIAL DISCIPLINE, MENTAL ASYLUMS, HOSPITALS AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN GERMAN HISTORIOGRAPHYSelect Bibliography; II Works on Foucault; Index

Notes:

"First published in paperback 1998."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-67154-7

0-203-01948-2

1-280-33291-3

1-134-67155-5

0-203-15914-4

9780203159144

9786610332915

9780203019481

OCLC:

56997492