Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine
Roger Cooter
Abstract
A collection of ten chapters paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes the author's contributions to the history of medicine. The book critically examines the politics of conceptual and methodological shifts in historiography. In particular, it examines the “double bind” of postmodernism and biological or neurological modeling that, together, threaten academic history. To counteract this trend historians must begin actively locating themselves in the problems they consider. The chapters and commentaries constitute a kind of contour map of history's recent trends ... More
Keywords: medicine, double bind, postmodernism, biological modeling, academic history, intellectual frameworks, epistemic virtues, conceptual shifts, methodological shifts
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300186635 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300186635.001.0001 |
