The body in everyday life /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=88751 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.