Premium
The rise of surveillance medicine
Author(s) -
Armstrong David
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9566.ep10933329
Subject(s) - normality , constitution , sign (mathematics) , identity (music) , space (punctuation) , grounded theory , sociology of health and illness , medicine , family medicine , sociology , law , political science , qualitative research , psychiatry , social science , health care , computer science , aesthetics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics , operating system
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.