Culture, bodies and the sociology of health / edited by Elizabeth Ettorre.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2010وصف:viii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780754677567
- 0754677567
- 9780754694991
- 0754694992
- HM636 .C855 2010
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | HM636 .C855 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 300100312810 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index.
This text explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'.
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.