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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154620403321

Autore

Wheatley Elizabeth E.

Titolo

Bodies at risk : an ethnography of heart disease / / Elizabeth E. Wheatley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-95512-8

1-315-26146-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

362.196/12

Soggetti

Heart - Diseases - Social aspects

Heart - Diseases - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2006 by Ashgate.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Suspicious bodies, troubled minds : emotionality, corporeality, and reflexivity in cardiac reskilling -- 3. Negotiating acceptable risk : collaboration, compromise and contestation in cardiac reskilling -- 4. Disciplining bodies at risk : cardiac rehabilitation and the medicalization of fitness -- 5. Reskilling with style : doubting and trusting in cardiac expertise -- 6. Reflexive reskilling in a risk culture.