Regulating bodies : essays in medical sociology / Bryan S. Turner.
Material type: TextPublisher: London, England ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 1992Description: viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415069637
- 9780415069632
- 0415082641
- 9780415082648
- 306.461 20
- HM110 .T87 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Author's preface: towards the somatic society -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Discovering bodies -- 1. The body question: recent developments in social theory -- 2. The absent body in structuration theory -- 3. Reflections on the epistemology of the hand -- Pt. II. Medical sociology -- 4. The interdisciplinary curriculum: from social medicine to postmodernism -- 5. The body and medical sociology -- Pt. III. Regimes of regulation -- 6. The government of the body: medical regimens and the rationalization of diet -- 7. The anatomy lesson: a note on the Merton thesis -- 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.
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