The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, History
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Author: Andrew Cunningham ISBN: 9781351219525
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: February 6, 2018
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Andrew Cunningham
ISBN: 9781351219525
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: February 6, 2018
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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