Medicine and the body
Simon J. Williams.
Bok Engelsk 2003
| Utgitt | London : : SAGE, , c2003.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource ([ix], 251 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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. - 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.. - Specialized.
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| ISBN | 0761956387. - 0761956395
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