A noted medical historian explores the roles played by various
intellectual frameworks and trends in the writing of history A
collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this
book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions to
the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work,
Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual and
methodological shifts in historiography. In particular, he examines
the "double bind" of postmodernism and biological or neurological
modeling that, together, threaten academic history. To counteract
this trend, suggests Cooter, historians must begin actively
locating themselves in the problems they consider. The essays and
commentaries constitute a kind of contour map of history's recent
trends and trajectories-its points of passage to the present-and
lead both to a critical account of the discipline's historiography
and to an examination of the role of intellectual frameworks and
epistemic virtues in the writing of history.
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