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The body in everyday life / edited by Sarah Nettleton and Jonathan Watson.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Nettleton Watson Staff, Corporate Author.
Contributor:
Nettleton, Sarah, 1960-
Watson, Jonathan, 1960-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Human body--Social aspects.
Human body.
Mind and body.
Social medicine.
Physical Description:
x, 308 p. : ill.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our everyday life? This new and accessible introduction to the sociology of the body explores how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies.
Contents:
chapter 1 The body in everyday life
part Part I Physical and emotional bodies
chapter 2 The body as a chemistry experiment
chapter 3 Immunology on the street
chapter 4 Feeling letdown
chapter 5 Going with the flow
part Part II Health and illness
chapter 6 Malignant bodies
chapter 7 Falling out with my shadow
chapter 8 The body, health and self in the middle years / Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Kathryn Backett- Milburn
part Part III Gender
chapter 9 Running around like a lunatic
chapter 10 The body resists
chapter 11 Natural for women, abnormal for men
chapter 12 Embodied obligation
part Part IV Ageing
chapter 13 The sight of age / Bill Bytheway
chapter 14 Growing old gracefully as opposed to mutton dressed as lamb
chapter 15 The male menopause.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-134-71753-9
1-280-11037-6
1-134-71754-7
0-585-46484-7
0-203-00688-7
9780203006887
OCLC:
77080813

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