Medicine and the body / Simon J. Williams.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 251 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0761956387
- 9780761956389
- 0761956395
- 9780761956396
- 306.461
- RA418 W46 2003
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 306.461 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A491954B | ||
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-242) and index.
Introduction: medical sociology in the new millennium -- 1. The biomedical body: reductionism, constructionism and beyond -- 2. What is health? Thinking through the boundaries of the body -- 3. 'Structuring' bodies: emotions, inequalities and health -- 4. Children, ageing and health: bodies across the lifecourse -- 5. Bodily dys-order: chronic illness as biographical disruption? -- 6. Dormant/mortal bodies: sleep, death and dying in late/postmodernity -- 7. Reason, emotion and 'mental' health: where do we draw the line? -- 8. Hi-tech bodies: from corporeality to hyperreality? -- 9. Caring bodies/embodied ethics -- Conclusion: the challenges ahead.
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