Stroke and apoplexy : explorations of the history of medicine -- Socio-historical approaches to the study of health and illness -- Methodology : interpreting and applying Foucault's methods -- Epidemics and nosologies -- Apoplexy and official statistics : the rise of regulation -- New medical technologies : regulation and the emergence of 'stroke medicine' -- Technologies of the self in apoplexy and stroke : risk or consequence? -- 'The mysterious apoplexies and strokes' : challenges and contradictions in stroke medicine.