| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-336) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medicine -- History -- 20th century.
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Medicine. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Geschiedenis.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Stein, Claudia.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cooter, Roger. Writing history in the age of biomedicine. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013 9780300186635 (DLC) 2012047822 (OCoLC)813392857 |
| ISBN |
9780300189438 (electronic book) |
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0300189435 (electronic book) |
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9780300186635 |
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0300186630 |
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