| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 251 pages) |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically re-examines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Medical Sociology in the New Millennium; Chapter 1 -- The Biomedical Body: Reductionism, Constructionism and Beyond; Chapter 2 -- What Is Health? Thinking through the Boundaries of the Body; Chapter 3 -- 'Structuring' Bodies: Emotions, Inequalities and Health; Chapter 4 -- Children, Ageing and Health: Bodies Across the Lifecourse; Chapter 5 -- Bodily Dys-order: Chronic Illness as Biographical Disruption?; Chapter 6 -- Dormant/Mortal Bodies: Sleep, Death and Dying in Late/Postmodernity. |
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Chapter 7 -- Reason, Emotion and 'Mental' Health: Where Do We Draw the Line?Chapter 8 -- Hi-Tech Bodies: From Corporeality to Hyperreality?; Chapter 9 -- Caring Bodies/Embodied Ethics; Conclusion: The Challenges Ahead; References; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social medicine.
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Social medicine. |
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Human body.
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Human body. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Williams, Simon Johnson. Medicine and the Body. London : SAGE Publications, ©2003 9780761956396 |
| ISBN |
9781446265253 (electronic book) |
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1446265250 (electronic book) |
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9780761956389 |
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0761956387 |
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9781446217795 (ebook) |
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1446217795 (ebook) |
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0761956387 |
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9780761956396 |
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0761956395 |
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