ISBN:
0203006887
,
9780203006887
,
0585464847
,
9780585464848
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (x, 308 pages)
,
illustrations.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Paralleltitel:
Print version Body in everyday life
DDC:
306.4
Schlagwort(e):
Human body Social aspects
;
Corps humain Aspect social
;
Esprit et corps
;
Sociologie médicale
;
Mind and body
;
Social medicine
;
Human body Social aspects
;
Mind and body
;
Human body Social aspects
;
Social medicine
;
Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
;
Human Body
;
Sociology, Medical
;
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Human body ; Social aspects
;
Mind and body
;
Social medicine
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our everyday life? This new and accessible introduction to the sociology of the body explores how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies
Kurzfassung:
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.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
pt. 1. Physical and emotional bodiesThe 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.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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