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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Main Author: Ragab, Ahmed (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley [2016]
In: History and theory
Year: 2016, Volume: 55, Issue: 4, Pages: 112-130
Further subjects:B Medicine
B Religion and science
B Islam
B Postcolonial
B Egypt
B Monsters
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