Download or read book Illness as a Work of Thought written by Monica Greco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illness as a Work of Thought is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods of the study of illness and modernity. From medicine and psychiatry to psychology and the social sciences, Monica Greco explores what the history of these different disciplines contributes to what we understand by the term 'psychosomatics' and analyses how the study of psychosomatic illness can transform the way we think of illness, subjectivity and the ethics and politics of health.