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Author Daneski, Katharine, 1952-

Title A Sociohistory of Cerebrovascular Disease and the Development of Modern Stroke Medicine : a Foucauldian Analysis.

Publication Info. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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Description 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.
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Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Cerebrovascular disease -- History.
Cerebrovascular disease.
History.
Cerebrovascular disease -- Chemotherapy -- History.
Cerebrovascular disease -- Chemotherapy.
Social medicine.
Social medicine.
Stroke -- history.
Sociology, Medical.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780773436596
ISBN 9780773429482
0773429484
9780773436596
0773436596