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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451741003321

Titolo

Routledge handbook of body studies / / edited by Bryan S. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-90332-1

0-203-84209-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (428 p.)

Collana

Routledge International Handbooks

Altri autori (Persone)

TurnerBryan S

Disciplina

306.4/613

Soggetti

Human body - Social aspects

Human body in popular culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Routledge Handbook of Body Studies; Copyright Page; Contents; Editorial Board; List of contributors; Introduction: The Turn of the Body: Bryan S. Turner; Body, Self and Society; 1. Simone de Beauvoir and Binaries of the Body: Mary Evans; 2. Pragmatism's Embodied Philosophy: From Immediate Experience to Somaesthetics: Richard Shusterman; 3. Norbert Elias and the Body: Mike Atkinson; 4. Embodied Practice: Martin Heidegger, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault: Bryan S. Turner; 5. My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interactionism, Autoethnography and Embodiment: Ken Plummer

6. Feminist Theory: Bodies, Science and Technology: Patricia Ticineto Clough7. Foucault's Body: Nikki Sullivan; What is a Body?; 8. Layers or Versions? Human Bodies and the Love of Bitterness: Annemarie Mol; 9. Phenomenology and the Body: Nick Crossley; 10. Social Constructionism and the Body: Darin Weinberg; 11. From Embodied Regulations to Hybrid Ontologies: Questioning: Stratos Naneglou; 12. Social Brains, Embodiment and Neuro-Interactionism: Victoria Pitts-Taylor; Religion and the Body

13. Relics of Faith: Fleshly Desires, Ascetic Disciplines and Devotional Affect in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement: Tulasi Srinivas14. The Body and the Veil: Sonja van Wichelen; 15. Recomposing Decimated Bodies: Nurit Stadler; Medical Regimes and the Body; 16. Death Signals



Life: A Semiotics of the Corpse: Lianna Hart and Stefan Timmermans; 17. Beyond the Anorexic Paradigm: Re-Thinking 'Eating' Disorders: Susan Bordo; 18. Disability, Impairment and the Body: Christopher A. Faircloth; 19. The Body, Social Inequality and Health: Kevin White

20. Health and the Embodiment of the Life Course: Jenny Hockey and Allison JamesGender, Sexualities and Race; 21. Chinese Male Bodies: A Transnational Study of Masculinity and Sexuality: Travis S. K. Kong; 22. Male Bodies, Masculine Bodies, Men's Bodies: The Need for a Concept of Gex: Jeff Hearn; 23. Racialized Bodies: Maxine Leeds Craig; Technologies and Body Modification; 24. Getting Work Done: Cosmetic Surgery as Constraint, as Commodity, as Commonplace: Heather Laine Talley; 25. Modified Bodies: Texts, Projects and Process: Paul Sweetman

26. Questions of Life and Death: A Genealogy: Tiago Moreira and Paolo Palladino27. Rejecting the Aging Body: Alex Dumas; 28. Conclusion: The Varieties of My Body: Pain, Ethics and Illusio: Arthur W. Frank; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies - such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics - have changed how we think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-human



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454345903321

Autore

Hitt David

Titolo

Homesteading space [[electronic resource] ] : the Skylab story / / David Hitt, Owen Garriott, and Joe Kerwin ; foreword by Homer Hickam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-95839-5

9786611958398

0-8032-1901-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (549 p.)

Collana

Outward odyssey

Altri autori (Persone)

GarriottOwen K. <1930->

KerwinJoe <1932->

Disciplina

629.45/4

Soggetti

Manned space flight - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Outer space Exploration United States History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [519]-520).

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. From the Ground Up; 2. The Homesteaders; 3. Getting Ready to Fly; 4. Fifty-six Days in a Can; 5. A Tour of Skylab; 6. Ten Days in May; 7. "We Fix Anything"; 8. "Marooned"; 9. High Performance; 10. Sprinting a Marathon; 11. Science on Skylab; 12. What Goes Up . . .; 13. The Legacy of Skylab; Appendix; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and execution there was the vastness of space itself, to say nothing of monumental technological challenges. Homesteading Space, by two of Skylab's own astronauts and a NASA journalist, tells the dramatic story of America's first space station from beginning to fiery end.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792167803321

Autore

Doern G. Bruce

Titolo

Rules and unruliness : Canadian regulatory democracy, governance, capitalism, and welfarism / / G. Bruce Doern, Michael J. Prince, and Richard J. Schultz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, Québec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7735-9041-2

0-7735-9040-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Disciplina

342.71/066

Soggetti

Social legislation - Canada

Administrative procedure - Canada

Administrative agencies - Canada

Industrial policy - Canada

Canada Economic policy

Canada Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part one Regulatory Democracy and Governance : Analyical Framework and Historical Context. Conceptual Foundations and Analytical Framework -- Canadian Regulatory Democracy and Governance in Liberal and Conservative Eras -- The Changing Ecosystem of Canadian Regulation: Ministerial Agency-Relations and Expanding Interests --

Part Two Six Regulatory Regimes : an Empirical Analysis. The Macro-Regulatory Governance Regime: Rules about Rules -- The Economic Sectoral Regime: The Core Energy, Transportation, and Telecommunications Regulators -- The Regulatory Regime of Social Sectors: Registered Charities, Citizenship and Immigration, and Assisted Human Reproduction Technologies -- The Marketplace Framework Regulatory Regime: Competition, Banking and Financial Services, and Intellectual Property -- The Societal Framework Regulatory Regime: Law and Order, Morality and Sexuality, and the Welfare State -- The Regulatory Regime for Parliamentary Democracy:



Parties, Elections, Responsible Government, and Parliament's Watchdog Agencies -- Rules and Unruliness in Canadian Regulatory Democracy and Governance -- Glossary of Major Terms.

Sommario/riassunto

A critical examination of Canadian regulatory governance and politics over the years, this book builds on the theory and practice of rule-making to show why government "unruliness" - the inability to form rules and implement structures for compliance - is endemic and increasing.