1st Edition

Reassessing Foucault Power, Medicine and the Body

Edited By Colin Jones, Roy Porter Copyright 1994
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences. Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his... Read more
David Armstrong, Guy's Hospital Medical School; Nikolas Rose, Goldsmiths'; Martin Dinges, Stuttgart; Felix Driver, Royal Holloway; Dieter Freundlieb, Griffith University, Brisbane, Randall McGowan, University of Oregon; Sarah Nettleton, Newcastle Polytechnic

Biography

Colin Jones is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Roy Porter is Professor of Social History of Medicine a the Wellcome Institute in London.