Medicine and the body

Medicine and the body / Simon J. Williams.

Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically re-examines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Simon J. (Simon Johnson), 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage, ©2003.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Human body.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Human body
Social medicine
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Medical Sociology in the New Millennium; Chapter 1
  • The Biomedical Body: Reductionism, Constructionism and Beyond; Chapter 2
  • What Is Health? Thinking through the Boundaries of the Body; Chapter 3
  • 'Structuring' Bodies: Emotions, Inequalities and Health; Chapter 4
  • Children, Ageing and Health: Bodies Across the Lifecourse; Chapter 5
  • Bodily Dys-order: Chronic Illness as Biographical Disruption?; Chapter 6
  • Dormant/Mortal Bodies: Sleep, Death and Dying in Late/Postmodernity.
  • Chapter 7
  • Reason, Emotion and 'Mental' Health: Where Do We Draw the Line?Chapter 8
  • Hi-Tech Bodies: From Corporeality to Hyperreality?; Chapter 9
  • Caring Bodies/Embodied Ethics; Conclusion: The Challenges Ahead; References; Index.

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