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A sociohistory of cerebrovascular disease and the development of modern stroke medicine : a Foucauldian analysis

Title: A sociohistory of cerebrovascular disease and the development of modern stroke medicine : a Foucauldian analysis / Katharine Daneski ; with a foreword by Ian Rees Jones.
Author: Daneski, Katharine, 1952-
Publication: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010.

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Description

iv, 290 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

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.

ISBN

9780773436596
0773436596

LCCN

2010011622

OCLC

ocn572716957
572716957
SCSB-8859974

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Columbia University Libraries