Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health

Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health

Ettorre, Elizabeth

Taylor & Francis Ltd

06/2010

186

Dura

Inglês

9780754677567

15 a 20 dias

500

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Contents: Introduction: re-shaping bodies in the sociology of health, Elizabeth Ettorre. Part I Bodies and Technoscience: Transplantation, organ donation and (in)human experience: re-writing boundaries through embodied perspectives on kidney failure, Ciara Kierans; Normalized elites: rethinking doping as abnormal practice, April D. Henning; Embodying a healthy running body in a British non-elite road running community, Carol Sutton. Part II Bodies and Representations: The visible body: health representations in a consumer society, Rui Machado Gomes; The internet and medicalization: reshaping the global body and illness, Peter Conrad and Ashley Rondini; The ageing body: from bio-medical fatalism to understanding gender and biographical sensitivity, Jason L. Powell. Part III Abject Bodies: 'Where the excess grows': demarcating 'normal' and 'pathologically' obese bodies, Shirlene Badger; Bodies, drugs and reproductive regimes, Elizabeth Ettorre; Index.
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