Regulating bodies : essays in medical sociology / / Bryan S. Turner
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| Autore: |
Turner Bryan S
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| Titolo: |
Regulating bodies : essays in medical sociology / / Bryan S. Turner
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/61 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human body - Social aspects |
| Social medicine | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Regulating bodies Essays in medical sociology; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Author's preface: towards the somatic society; Introduction; Part I Discovering bodies; Chapter 1 The body question: recent developments in social theory; Chapter 2 The absent body in structuration theory; Chapter 3 Reflections on the epistemology of the hand; Part II Medical sociology; Chapter 4 The interdisciplinary curriculum: from social medicine to postmodernism; Chapter 5 The body and medical sociology; Part III Regimes of regulation |
| Chapter 6 The government of the body: medical regimens and the rationalization of diet; Chapter 7 The anatomy lesson: a note on the Merton thesis; Chapter 8 The talking disease: Hilda Bruch and anorexia nervosa; Conclusion. Theory and epistemology of the body: an interview with Richard Fardon; Appendix: Bryan S. Turner's publications on the sociology of the body and medical sociology; Name index; Subject index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Regulating bodies |
| ISBN: | 1-280-32463-5 |
| 0-203-21418-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779822103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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