Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 The body in everyday life -- Social change and the body -- Approaches to the study of the body -- Phenomenology: the 'lived body' and 'embodiment' -- The 'taken-for-grantedness' of the body -- Bodily controls -- Body-image -- Gender -- A final word about this book -- Notes -- References -- Part I Physical and emotional bodies -- Chapter 2 The body as a chemistry experiment -- Methods -- Ethnopharmacology: 'You've got to be like a scientist' -- Use and abuse: 'It's about control' -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3 Immunology on the street -- The basic idea -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 'Feeling letdown' -- The sample and method -- Sources of information about letdown -- Making sense of letdown -- Describing the sensation -- Letdown: 'a mind of its own' -- The significance of letdown -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Going with the flow -- Method -- Embodiment and the emotions -- Contextualising emotion discourses: some speculations -- Notes -- References -- Part II Health and illness -- Chapter 6 Malignant bodies -- Researching children -- 'Healthy' and 'unhealthy' bodies: consumption, risk and lifestyles -- 'Malignant' bodies -- 'Monstrous'/'demonic' bodies -- 'Dys-figured'l'absent' bodies -- 'Combustible' bodies -- 'Pathological' bodies -- 'Mortal' bodies -- Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Falling out with my shadow -- Background -- Body experience within the context of arthritis -- Method -- Impact of arthritis and its treatment on the body and movement -- Body parts -- Posture -- Movement -- Side-effects of treatment -- Social and emotional impact of arthritis -- Body taboo and visibility -- Social relationships.

Falling out with your shadow -- Positive perceptions of the body -- Discussion -- Acknowledgement -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8 The body, health and self in the middle years -- The study -- Accessing the body empirically -- The body and health -- Knowing your body: weak and strong points -- The communicating body: messages from within -- Change, age and the body -- Change, choice and control: responses to the communicating body -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Part III Gender -- Chapter 9 Running around like a lunatic -- Background -- Notes on method -- About 'Colin' -- Empirical findings -- Images of healthy and unhealthy bodies -- The body and daily living -- Body maintenance -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 10 The body resists -- Problems: method and the body -- Autobiography -- Context and structure -- The Processing Office -- Royal Air Force rank hierarchy -- The subordinate core-some biographies -- Clerks and the 'bodies of men' -- Willed and unwilled bodily control -- Hierarchy-status and size -- The fixed face of bodily functioning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 Natural for women, abnormal for men -- Pain and culture -- Researching pain and gender -- Why do women 'cope' better? -- The conditioned stoicism of men -- Expressing pain: benefits and costs -- Discussion and conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 12 Embodied obligation -- Participation and compliance -- Regulated bodies in sociology -- The embodiment of obligation -- Regulated femininity and responsible citizenship -- Negotiating surveillance and care -- Embodiment, obligation and citizenship -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part IV Ageing -- Chapter 13 The sight of age -- A note on method -- The mask of age -- Interpreting the image -- The construction of the image of age -- Associating age with dependency.

Discussion -- References -- Chapter 14 'Growing old gracefully' as opposed to 'mutton dressed as lamb' -- 'Growing old gracefully' as opposed to 'mutton dressed as lamb' -- Physical attractiveness and the meaning of growing older -- The inevitability of ageing -- Fear of old age -- Separation of the self and the body -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15 The male menopause -- Menopause/male menopause -- Accounting for the male menopause -- Convergence -- References -- Index.