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.
| ISBN: | 9781138110328 |
| Publication date: | 22nd May 2017 |
| Author: | Andrew Cunningham |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 284 pages |
| Series: | Variorum Collected Studies |
| Genres: |
History of medicine Historiography Philosophy of science History of science Philosophy |
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.
The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine features in the following genres: History of medicine, Historiography, Philosophy of science, History of science, Philosophy
The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine was written by Andrew Cunningham and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine has 284 pages
Yes it is part of Variorum Collected Studies series
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