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9780415178495

Illness as a Work of Thought: A Foucauldian Perspective on Psychosomatics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415178495

  • ISBN10:

    0415178495

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-05-07
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods to the study of illness and modernity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1(7)
1 The symptoms of truth: a historical search
8(21)
2 Hide and seek: medicine and 'somatization'
29(16)
3 The vital and the social
45(11)
4 Does psychosomatics exist? An introduction
56(17)
5 The dispersion of psychosomatics
73(19)
6 Interpreting the bodily sign
92(16)
7 Interpreting the signs of embodiment
108(23)
8 Who is the subject of somatic pathology?
131(28)
9 Conclusions: a political double-edge
159(7)
Notes 166(3)
Bibliography 169(14)
Index 183

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