Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

A noted medical historian explores the roles played by various intellectual frameworks and trends in the writing of historyA 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. In particular, he examines the “double bind” of postmodernism and biological or neurological modeling that, together, threaten academic history. To counteract this trend, suggests Cooter, historians must begin actively locating themselves in the problems they consider.The essays and commentaries constitute a kind of contour map of history’s recent trends and trajectories—its points of passage to the present—and lead both to a critical account of the discipline’s historiography and to an examination of the role of intellectual frameworks and epistemic virtues in the writing of history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-07-05
Mått:156 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:739 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Yale University Press
ISBN:9780300186635

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Historia: teori och metod inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Roger Cooter is a professor at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University College London, where he specializes in the social history of ideas in science and medicine. Claudia Stein is an associate professor of history at the University of Warwick.

Recensioner i media

“....an intellectual tour de force wresting with Marc Bloch’s original quest to interrogate the purpose, meaning, and methodology of the historian’s craft....this will be a ‘must have’ book for introducing students to the study of history, especially at the graduate level.”—Dorothy Porter, Professor in the History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco