Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
Ian Hacking
As Foucault once identified a politics that centers on the body and another that classifies and organizes the human population, Hacking has now provided a masterful description of the politics of memory: the scientizing of the soul and the wounds it can receive.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 1998
- ISBN-13
- 9780691059082
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Multiple personality disorderMemory scienceHistory of psychiatry
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryShortlisted(1995)
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