Mary de Young, Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015), pp. vi, 368, $55, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-7864-6897-3.
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Life Atomic is thus a historical epistemology from the inside out. Creager’s method is reminiscent of what Marxists call immanent critique and what Clifford Geertz once called ‘internal conversion’. (It is, I think, an accident of history that Geertz’s term is drawn from atomic physics.) Methodological innovation, in this mode, need not be imported. It can be found in the sources themselves. Creager gives us an epistemology of tracing; other histories will afford other endogenous analytics. Life Atomic is not a call for more histories of tracers, then – it is a call for a new kind of history, one framed less in terms drawn from without than in terms unearthed from within. Though Creager is too humble to admit it, her book suggests a new methodology for the history of science and medicine, if not history itself. If we adopt it, historical scholarship might become more unified and more pluralistic at once. Creager has given us more than a new history. Life Atomic models a new way to write such histories. It should be read by anyone interested in understanding the past on its own terms. Henry M. Cowles Yale University, USA
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دوره 60 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016