Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body

 

 

 

 

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.

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Colin Jones and Roy Porter

2. Bodies of knowledge/knowledge of bodies

David Armstrong

3. on Anti-Medicine and clinical reason

Thomas Osborne

4. Medicine, history and the present

Nikolas Rose

5. Inventing mouths: disciplinary power and dentistry

Sarah Nettleton

6. Power and humanity, or Foucault among the historians

Randall McGowan

7. Bodies in space: Foucault's account of disciplinary power

Felix Driver

8. Applying Foucault: some problems encountered in the application of Foucault's methods to the history of medicine in prisons

9. Foucault's methods to the history of medicine in prisons

Stephen Watson

10. The Reception of Michel Foucault's ideas on social discipline, mental asylums, hospitals and the medical profession in German historiography

Martin Dinges

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