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Body Work in Health and Social Care [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Themes, New Agendas



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Autore: Twigg Julia Visualizza persona
Titolo: Body Work in Health and Social Care [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Themes, New Agendas Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicester, : Wiley, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
Disciplina: 306.4/61
306.461
307.76
Soggetto topico: Human body - Social aspects
Human body -- Social aspects
Social medicine
Sociology
Medicine
Culture
Health Occupations
Art
Social Sciences
Anthropology, Cultural
Humanities
Anthropology
Behavioral Sciences
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Social Medicine
Sociology, Medical
Human Body
Sociology & Social History
Social Change
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Classificazione: SOC026000
Altri autori: WolkowitzCarol  
CohenRachel Lara  
NettletonSarah  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Body Work in Health and Social Care Critical Themes, New Agendas; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: Conceptualising body work in health and social care; 2: Time, space and touch at work: body work and labour process (re)organisation; 3: Managing the body work of home care; 4: The means of correct training: embodied regulation in training for body work among mothers; 5: From body-talk to body-stories: body work in complementary and alternative medicine; 6: Educating with the hands: working on the body/self in Alexander Technique
7: Treating women's sexual difficulties: the body work of sexual therapy8: Actions speak louder than words: the embodiment of trust by healthcare professionals in gynae-oncology; 9: Body work in respiratory physiological examinations; 10: In a moment of mismatch: overseas doctors' adjustments in new hospital environments; 11: The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers' contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK; 12: Afterword: Body work and the sociological tradition Chris Shilling; Index
Sommario/riassunto: The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work.Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social careContributions come from an international range of expertsDraws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fieldsIncorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic stu
Titolo autorizzato: Body Work in Health and Social Care  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-25844-7
9786613258441
1-4443-4586-9
1-4443-4583-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910139593903321
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Serie: Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs