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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454919203321

Autore

Turner Bryan S

Titolo

Regulating bodies [[electronic resource] ] : essays in medical sociology / / Bryan S. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, N.Y., : Routledge, 1992

ISBN

1-280-32463-5

0-203-21418-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/61

Soggetti

Human body - Social aspects

Social medicine

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Regulating bodies Essays in medical sociology; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Author's preface: towards the somatic society; Introduction; Part I Discovering bodies; Chapter 1 The body question: recent developments in social theory; Chapter 2 The absent body in structuration theory; Chapter 3 Reflections on the epistemology of the hand; Part II Medical sociology; Chapter 4 The interdisciplinary curriculum: from social medicine to postmodernism; Chapter 5 The body and medical sociology; Part III Regimes of regulation

Chapter 6 The government of the body: medical regimens and the rationalization of dietChapter 7 The anatomy lesson: a note on the Merton thesis; Chapter 8 The talking disease: Hilda Bruch and anorexia nervosa; Conclusion. Theory and epistemology of the body: an interview with Richard Fardon; Appendix: Bryan S. Turner's publications on the sociology of the body and medical sociology; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously.