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1 online resource (305 pages) |
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Summary |
This book examines historiographical accounts of the cerebrovascular condition using a socio-historical approach influenced by the writings of Michel Foucault in an attempt to understand how stroke medicine has emerged in its current form. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Stroke and apoplexy : explorations of the history of medicine -- Socio-historical approaches to the study of health and illness -- Methodology : interpreting and applying Foucault's methods -- Epidemics and nosologies -- Apoplexy and official statistics : the rise of regulation -- New medical technologies : regulation and the emergence of 'stroke medicine' -- Technologies of the self in apoplexy and stroke : risk or consequence? -- 'The mysterious apoplexies and strokes' : challenges and contradictions in stroke medicine. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. |
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. |
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Cerebrovascular disease -- History.
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Cerebrovascular disease. |
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History. |
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Cerebrovascular disease -- Chemotherapy -- History.
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Cerebrovascular disease -- Chemotherapy. |
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Social medicine.
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Social medicine. |
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Stroke -- history. |
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Sociology, Medical. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9780773436596 |
ISBN |
9780773429482 |
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0773429484 |
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9780773436596 |
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0773436596 |
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