Medicine and the body /
Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically reexamines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness. Included here are cutting edge discussions and debates concerning: - the medicalized body - health inequalities - childhood...
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London : Thousand Oaks, CA :
Sage Pub.,
c2003
London : Sage Publications, 2003 London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : 2003 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: medical sociology in the new millennium
- The biomedical body: reductionism, constructionism and beyond
- What is health? Thinking through the boundaries of the body
- 'Structuring' bodies: emotions, inequalities and health
- Children, ageing and health: bodies across the lifecourse
- Bodily dys-order: chronic illness as biographical disruption?
- Dormant/mortal bodies: sleep, death and dying in late/postmodernity
- Reason, emotion and 'mental' health: where do we draw the line?
- Hi-tech bodies: from corporeality to hyperreality?
- Caring bodies/embodied ethics
- Conclusion: the challenges ahead