TY - BOOK ID - 77897431 TI - Reassessing Foucault AU - Jones, Colin AU - Porter, Roy PY - 1994 SN - 0203019482 1280332913 1134671555 0203159144 9780203159144 9786610332915 9780203159149 9780203019481 0203173368 9780203173367 0415075424 0415183413 9781134671502 9781134671540 9781134671557 9780415075428 9780415183413 1134671547 9781280332913 6610332916 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - Social medicine. KW - Empowerment (Social sciences) KW - Political power KW - Exchange theory (Sociology) KW - Political science KW - Social sciences KW - Sociology KW - Consensus (Social sciences) KW - Medical care KW - Medical sociology KW - Medicine KW - Medicine, Social KW - Public health KW - Public welfare KW - Medical ethics KW - Medical sociologists KW - Institutions, associations, etc. KW - Networks (Associations, institutions, etc.) KW - Organizations KW - Voluntary associations KW - Voluntary organizations KW - Social groups KW - Voluntarism KW - Social aspects KW - Foucault, Michel KW - Contributions in sociology. KW - Social Medicine KW - Philosophy, Medical KW - Power, Psychological. KW - Academies and Institutes. KW - Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) KW - Associations KW - MeĢdecine sociale KW - history. KW - Foucault, Michel, KW - Social medicine KW - Contributions in sociology KW - Foucault, Michel - Contributions in sociology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77897431 AB - 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 ER -