Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body

by Roy Porter (Editor), Roy Porter (Editor)

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. This vital guide critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers across the range of social sciences.

Genres: Philosophy

236 pages, Paperback

First published May 19, 1994

About the author

Roy's books cover several fields: the history of geology, London, 18th-Century British ideas and society, medicine, madness, quackery, patients and practitioners, literature and art, on which subjects (and others) he published over 200 books are articles.

List of works can be found @ wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter )

Reviews

[Amirsaman]

Read only this one yet:
ON ANTI-MEDICINE AND CLINICAL REASON (Thomas Osborne)

[saizine · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting collection of essays examining Foucault's work, mainly Discipline and Punish and Birth of the Clinic. Some of the included essays were a little more repetitive than others (for example, many of them open with a discussion of Foucault's controversial reputation among historians, which covers very little new ground each time). I particularly enjoyed Nikolas Rose's "Medicine, History and the Present" and Sarah Nettleton's "Inventing Mouths: Disciplinary Power and Dentistry".

[māris šteinbergs · Rating 5 out of 5]

ar katru paskaidrojošo tekstu domāju, ka Fuko ir bomba un baigais kvīrs