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Autore: | Twigg Julia |
Titolo: | Body Work in Health and Social Care [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Themes, New Agendas |
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 |
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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