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A New History of Identity

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  1. David Armstrong
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Prologue

    • David Armstrong
    Pages 1-4
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  3. Constructing the Body

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    Pages 5-16
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  4. Negotiating Death

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    Pages 17-24
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  5. Discovering Origins

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    Pages 25-35
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  6. Making the Body Move

    • David Armstrong
    Pages 37-46
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  7. Creating a Social Identity

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    Pages 47-55
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  8. Invoking Subjectivity

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    Pages 57-70
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  9. Instilling Agency

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    Pages 71-83
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  10. Confessing Death

    • David Armstrong
    Pages 85-97
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  11. Dimensionalizing Identity

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    Pages 99-108
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  12. Becoming at Risk

    • David Armstrong
    Pages 109-116
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  13. Death of the Old Hospital

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    Pages 117-131
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  14. Birth of Primary Care

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    Pages 133-146
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  15. Ecce homo

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    Pages 147-157
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  16. Identity of the Observer

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    Pages 159-173
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  17. The Subject of Knowledge

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    Pages 175-185
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  18. A Note on Methodology

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    Pages 187-198
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  19. Back Matter

    Pages 199-213
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About this book

Medical texts provide a powerful means of accessing contemporary perceptions of illness and through them assumptions about the nature of the body and identity. By mapping these perceptions, from their nineteenth-century focus on illness located in a biological body through to their 'discovery' of the psycho-social patient of the late twentieth century, a history of identity, both physical and psychological, is revealed.

About the author

DAVID ARMSTRONG is Reader in Sociology as applied to Medicine in the Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Medical School at King's College London. He has published widely on the sociology of medical knowledge, including Political Anatomy of the Body: Medical Knowledge in the Twentieth Century.

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