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Reassessing Foucault

Name: Reassessing Foucault
Author: Colin Jones
ISBN: 9780415075428

by Colin Jones (Editor), Roy Porter

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Overview

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 ideas about prisons, hospitals, madness and disease, and his thinking about the body.
The book also suggests ways in which Foucault's influence will continue to dominate cultural history and the social sciences.

Synopsis

This study critically examines the implications of Foucault's work for students and researchers in a wide selection of areas in the social and human sciences.

About the Author, Colin Jones

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.