Medicine and the body / / Simon J. Williams
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| Autore: |
Williams Simon J (Simon Johnson), <1961->
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| Titolo: |
Medicine and the body / / Simon J. Williams
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Thousand Oaks, : Sage, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource ([ix], 251 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.461 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social medicine |
| Human body | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Medicine and the body |
| ISBN: | 1-4462-6525-0 |
| 1-283-88086-5 | |
| 0-7619-5638-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814705103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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