Medicine and the Body
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This is a clear, well-written account of medicine, health and the body. Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically reexamines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness. Included here are cutting edge discussions and debates concerning:
- the medicalized body
- health inequalities
- childhood and ageing
- the dilemmas of high-tech medicine
- chronic illness and disability
- caring and (bio)ethics
- sleep, death and dying
- the body in late/postmodernity
Written in an accessible, engaging style, with many original and innovative insights, the book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, and to researchers and lecturers with an interest in the embodied agendas of health and medicine in the new millennium.
Contents
Introduction
- Medical Sociology in the New Millennium
The Biomedical Body
- Reductionism, Constructionism and Beyond
What Is Health? Thinking through the Boundaries of the Body
What Is Health? Thinking through the Boundaries of the Body
`Structuring' Bodies
- Emotions, Inequalities and Health
Children, Ageing and Health
- Bodies across the Lifecourse
Bodily <i>Dys</i>-Order
- Chronic Illness a Biographical Disruption?
Dormant/Mortal Bodies
- Sleep, Death and Dying in Late/Postmodernity
Reason, Emotion and `Mental' Health
- Where Do We Draw the Line?
Hi-Tech Bodies
- From Corporeality to Hyperreality?
Caring Bodies/Embodied Ethics
Caring Bodies/Embodied Ethics
Conclusions
- The Challenges Ahead
Description
This is a clear, well-written account of medicine, health and the body. Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically reexamines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness. Included here are cutting edge discussions and debates concerning:
- the medicalized body
- health inequalities
- childhood and ageing
- the dilemmas of high-tech medicine
- chronic illness and disability
- caring and (bio)ethics
- sleep, death and dying
- the body in late/postmodernity
Written in an accessible, engaging style, with many original and innovative insights, the book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, and to researchers and lecturers with an interest in the embodied agendas of health and medicine in the new millennium.
Contents
Introduction
- Medical Sociology in the New Millennium
The Biomedical Body
- Reductionism, Constructionism and Beyond
What Is Health? Thinking through the Boundaries of the Body
What Is Health? Thinking through the Boundaries of the Body
`Structuring' Bodies
- Emotions, Inequalities and Health
Children, Ageing and Health
- Bodies across the Lifecourse
Bodily <i>Dys</i>-Order
- Chronic Illness a Biographical Disruption?
Dormant/Mortal Bodies
- Sleep, Death and Dying in Late/Postmodernity
Reason, Emotion and `Mental' Health
- Where Do We Draw the Line?
Hi-Tech Bodies
- From Corporeality to Hyperreality?
Caring Bodies/Embodied Ethics
Caring Bodies/Embodied Ethics
Conclusions
- The Challenges Ahead
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April 2003 | 264 pages | Sage UK
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This is a clear, well-written account of medicine, health and the body. Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically reexamines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness. Included here are cutting edge discussions and debates concerning:
- the medicalized body
- health inequalities
- childhood and ageing
- the dilemmas of high-tech medicine
- chronic illness and disability
- caring and (bio)ethics
- sleep, death and dying
- the body in late/postmodernity
Written in an accessible, engaging style, with many original and innovative insights, the book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, and to researchers and lecturers with an interest in the embodied agendas of health and medicine in the new millennium.
Table Of Contents:
- Introduction
- Medical Sociology in the New Millennium
- The Biomedical Body
- Reductionism, Constructionism and Beyond
- What Is Health? Thinking through the Boundaries of the Body
- `Structuring' Bodies
- Emotions, Inequalities and Health
- Children, Ageing and Health
- Bodies across the Lifecourse
- Bodily <i>Dys</i>-Order
- Chronic Illness a Biographical Disruption?
- Dormant/Mortal Bodies
- Sleep, Death and Dying in Late/Postmodernity
- Reason, Emotion and `Mental' Health
- Where Do We Draw the Line?
- Hi-Tech Bodies
- From Corporeality to Hyperreality?
- Caring Bodies/Embodied Ethics
- Conclusions
- The Challenges Ahead