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Introduction to A History of the Case Study: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Lang, Birgit Damousi, Joy Lewis, Alison
Lang, Birgit
Damousi, Joy
Lewis, Alison
Abstract
[Extract] A History of the Case Study represents a critical intervention into contemporary debate concerning the construction of knowledge which – after Michel Foucault’s elaborations on modern discourses of power – considers the medical case study in particular as an expression of new forms of disciplinary authority. This volume scrutinises the changing status of the human case study, that is, the medical, legal or literary case study that places an individual at its centre. With close reference to the dawning of ‘sexual modernity’ during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and to ideas about sexual identity in the period immediately before and...
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2017
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Book chapter
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A History of the Case Study: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature
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1-18
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School of Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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