02684nam 2200613 a 450 991077916760332120161219111513.01-4462-6525-01-283-88086-50-7619-5638-7(CKB)2550000000103875(EBL)1023961(OCoLC)828303099(SSID)ssj0000657323(PQKBManifestationID)11412579(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000657323(PQKBWorkID)10656185(PQKB)11472362(MiAaPQ)EBC1023961(OCoLC)797836069(StDuBDS)EDZ0000067606(Au-PeEL)EBL1023961(CaPaEBR)ebr10567123(CaONFJC)MIL419336(FINmELB)ELB133615(EXLCZ)99255000000010387520120405d2003 fy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrMedicine and the body[electronic resource] /Simon J. WilliamsLondon SAGEc20031 online resource ([ix], 251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4462-1779-5 0-7619-5639-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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/PostmodernityChapter 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; IndexTaking 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.Social medicineHuman bodySocial aspectsSocial medicine.Human bodySocial aspects.306.461Williams Simon J(Simon Johnson),1961-902518StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910779167603321Medicine and the body3809814UNINA