Regulating Bodies : Essays in Medical Sociology.
Title:
Regulating Bodies : Essays in Medical Sociology.
Author:
Turner, Professor Bryan S.
ISBN:
9780203214183
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents:
Regulating bodies Essays in medical sociology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Author's preface: towards the somatic society -- Introduction -- Part I Discovering bodies -- Chapter 1 The body question: recent developments in social theory -- Chapter 2 The absent body in structuration theory -- Chapter 3 Reflections on the epistemology of the hand -- Part II Medical sociology -- Chapter 4 The interdisciplinary curriculum: from social medicine to postmodernism -- Chapter 5 The body and medical sociology -- Part III Regimes of regulation -- Chapter 6 The government of the body: medical regimens and the rationalization of diet -- Chapter 7 The anatomy lesson: a note on the Merton thesis -- Chapter 8 The talking disease: Hilda Bruch and anorexia nervosa -- Conclusion. Theory and epistemology of the body: an interview with Richard Fardon -- Appendix: Bryan S. Turner's publications on the sociology of the body and medical sociology -- Name index -- Subject index.
Abstract:
Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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