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Williams Simon J (Simon Johnson), <1961-> |
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Medicine and the body [[electronic resource] /] / Simon J. Williams |
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ISBN |
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1-4462-6525-0 |
1-283-88086-5 |
0-7619-5638-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource ([ix], 251 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social medicine |
Human body - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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