'Making Up People' Reconsidered - Fashionable Diseases

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May 15, 2013 ... A Fashionable Diseases Workshop from the author of. Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient. Mental Illnesses, The Social ...
‘Making Up People’ Reconsidered

Professor Ian Hacking Philosophy University of Toronto

A Fashionable Diseases Workshop from the author of Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses, The Social Construction of What? and Historical Ontology, exploring how scientific classifications such as multiple personality disorder and autism may give rise to a new kind of person and way of experiencing oneself.

15th May 2013 10:30am – 12pm MEA House Auditorium Northumbria University

A Leverhulme Project by Northumbria and Newcastle University Email: [email protected]