Monsters and Patients: An Archaeology of Medicine, Islam, and Modernity
Foucault's analysis of the history of evolutionary thought in Les Mots et les choses introduces monsters as incomplete beings that form important steps on the evolutionary ladder toward the terminal species. Monsters represent attempts by nature to achieve the perfection of the terminal species...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
[2016]
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History and theory
Year: 2016, Volume: 55, Issue: 4, Pages: 112-130 |
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Medicine
B Religion and science B Islam B Postcolonial B Egypt B Monsters |
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