Body Work in Health and Social Care : Critical Themes, New Agendas.
Title:
Body Work in Health and Social Care : Critical Themes, New Agendas.
Author:
Twigg, Julia.
ISBN:
9781444345834
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (184 pages)
Series:
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs ; v.14
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
Contents:
Body Work in Health and Social Care Critical Themes, New Agendas -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Conceptualising body work in health and social care -- 2: Time, space and touch at work: body work and labour process (re)organisation -- 3: Managing the body work of home care -- 4: The means of correct training: embodied regulation in training for body work among mothers -- 5: From body-talk to body-stories: body work in complementary and alternative medicine -- 6: Educating with the hands: working on the body/self in Alexander Technique -- 7: Treating women's sexual difficulties: the body work of sexual therapy -- 8: Actions speak louder than words: the embodiment of trust by healthcare professionals in gynae-oncology -- 9: Body work in respiratory physiological examinations -- 10: In a moment of mismatch: overseas doctors' adjustments in new hospital environments -- 11: The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers' contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK -- 12: Afterword: Body work and the sociological tradition Chris Shilling -- Index.
Abstract:
The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work. Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social care Contributions come from an international range of experts Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fields Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic studies and first person accounts.
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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