Turner, Bryan S., <br/><br/>
Regulating bodies :  essays in medical sociology / 
Bryan S. Turner. 
 - viii, 280 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Acknowledgements --  Author's preface: towards the somatic society --  Introduction --  Discovering bodies --  The body question: recent developments in social theory --  The absent body in structuration theory --  Reflections on the epistemology of the hand --  Medical sociology --  The interdisciplinary curriculum: from social medicine to postmodernism --  The body and medical sociology --  Regimes of regulation --  The government of the body: medical regimens and the rationalization of diet --  The anatomy lesson: a note on the Merton thesis --  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.  Pt. I.  1.  2.  3.  Pt. II.  4.  5.  Pt. III.  6.  7.  8. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415069637 9780415069632 0415082641 9780415082648 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>92004229 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human body--Social aspects<br/>Social medicine.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM110  / .T87 1992 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.461