TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turner,Bryan S.
TI  - Regulating bodies: essays in medical sociology 
SN  - 0415069637
AV  - HM110 .T87 1992
U1  - 306.461 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - London, England, New York, N.Y.
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social medicine
N1  - 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
ER  -