Writing history in the age of biomedicine

A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual and methodological shifts in historiography.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cooter, Roger (-)
Otros Autores: Stein, Claudia
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press [2013]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The End? History-Writing in the Age of Biomedicine (and Before)
  • 2. Anticontagionism and History's Medical Record
  • 3. "Framing" the End of the Social History of Medicine
  • 4. The Turn of the Body
  • 5. Coming into Focus Posters, Power, and Visual Culture in the History of Medicine
  • 6. Visual Objects and Universal Meanings AIDS Posters, "Globalization" and History
  • 7. The Biography of Disease
  • 8. Inside the Whale Bioethics in History and Discourse
  • 9. Cracking Biopower
  • 10. The New Poverty of Theory Material Turns in a Latourian World.