The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine (Variorum Collected Studies) - Hardcover

Cunningham, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1409440249 ISBN 13: 9781409440246

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present. Historians usually tend to assume such continuous identities of present attitudes and activities with past ones, and rarely question them; the contention here is that this gives us a false image of the very things in the past that we went to look for.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Cunningham is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Review:

'As any scholar in the History of Science or Medicine will already know, Cunningham's work is subtle, programmatic, and immensely important for how we navigate and situate our thinking in relation to historical moments, actors and activities.' Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1409440249
• ISBN 13: 9781409440246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284