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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779167603321

Autore

Williams Simon J (Simon Johnson), <1961->

Titolo

Medicine and the body [[electronic resource] /] / Simon J. Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2003

ISBN

1-4462-6525-0

1-283-88086-5

0-7619-5638-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource ([ix], 251 p.)

Disciplina

306.461

Soggetti

Social medicine

Human body - Social aspects

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.