Writing history in the age of biomedicine / Roger Cooter with Claudia Stein.

By:

Cooter, Roger [author.]

Contributor(s):

Stein, Claudia [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780300189438
0300189435

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writing history in the age of biomedicine.DDC classification:

808.06/661 23

LOC classification:

R149 .C66 2013eb

NLM classification:

WZ 40

Other classification:

44.01

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-336) and index.

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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.

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