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The rise of surveillance medicine
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Despite the obvious triumph of a medical theory and practice grounded in the hospital, a new medicine based on the surveillance of normal populations can be identified as emerging in the twentieth century. This new Surveillance Medicine involves a fundamental remapping of the spaces of illness. This includes the problematisation of normality, the redrawing of the relationship between symptom, sign and illness, and the localisation of illness outside the corporal space of the body. It is argued that this new medicine has important implications for the constitution of identity in the late twentieth century.
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- Authors
- Armstrong, D.
- Affiliations
- University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Armstrong, David
- ORCID
- Armstrong, David
- Venue
- Sociology of Health & Illness
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1995-06
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 393-404
- ISSN
- 0141-9889 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9566
- OpenAlex
- W2008982090
- Cited by
- 1,083
- References
- 21
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- FWCI
- 7.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sociology of Health & Illness (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Medicine, History, and Philosophy
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Historical and modern epidemiology studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › History of Science and Medicine
- Keywords
- healthy population, 20th century medicine, hospital medicine
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