| Description |
1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Physical and emotional bodies -- The body as a chemistry experiment : steroid use among South Wales bodybuilders / Michael Bloor, Lee Monaghan, Russell P. Dobash, and Rebecca E. Dobash -- Immunology on the street : how nonscientists see the immune system / Emily Martin -- 'Feeling letdown' : an exploration of an embodied sensation associated with breastfeeding / Cathryn Britton -- Going with the flow : some central discourses in conceptualising and articulating the embodiment of emotional states / Deborah Lupton -- pt. 2. Health and illness -- Malignant bodies : children's beliefs about health, cancer and risk / Simon J. Williams and Gillian A. Bendelow -- Falling out with my shadow : lay perceptions of the body in the context of arthritis / Bethan Williams and Julie H. Barlow -- The body, health and self in the middle years / Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Kathryn Backett-Milburn -- pt. 3. Gender -- Running around like a lunatic : Colin's body and the case of male embodiment / Jonathan Watson -- The body resists : everyday clerking and unmilitary practice / Paul Higate -- Natural for women, abnormal for men : beliefs about pain and gender / Gillian A. Bendelow and Simon J. Williams -- Embodied obligation : the female body and health surveillance / Alexandra Howson -- pt. 4. Ageing -- The sight of age / Bill Bytheway and Julia Johnson -- 'Growing old gracefully' as opposed to 'mutton dressed as lamb' : the social construction of recognising older women / Eileen Fairhurst -- The male menopause : lay accounts and the cultural reconstruction of midlife / Mike Hepworth and Mike Featherstone. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects.
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Human body -- Social aspects. |
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Mind and body.
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Mind and body. |
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Social medicine.
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Social medicine. |
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Human Body. |
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Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical. |
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Sociology, Medical. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nettleton, Sarah, 1960-
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Watson, Jonathan, 1960-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Body in everyday life. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 (DLC) 97044695 |
| ISBN |
0203006887 (electronic book) |
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9780203006887 (electronic book) |
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0585464847 (electronic book) |
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9780585464848 (electronic book) |
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9780415162012 |
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0415162017 |
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0415162009 (hardcover) |
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0415162017 (paperback) |
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