This book examines historiographical accounts of the cerebrovascular condition using a socio-historical approach influenced by the writings of Michel Foucault in an attempt to understand how stroke medicine has emerged in its current form.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Stroke and apoplexy : explorations of the history of medicine -- Socio-historical approaches to the study of health and illness -- Methodology : interpreting and applying Foucault's methods -- Epidemics and nosologies -- Apoplexy and official statistics : the rise of regulation -- New medical technologies : regulation and the emergence of 'stroke medicine' -- Technologies of the self in apoplexy and stroke : risk or consequence? -- 'The mysterious apoplexies and strokes' : challenges and contradictions in stroke medicine.
