Regulating bodies : essays in medical sociology / Bryan S. Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Bryan S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Social medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-32463-5

0-203-21418-8

9780203214183

OCLC:

437082398