| Description |
x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. The body in everyday life: an introduction / Sarah Nettleton and Jonathan Watson -- Pt. I. Physical and emotional bodies. 2. The body as a chemistry experiment: steroid use among South Wales bodybuilders / Michael Bloor, Lee Monaghan and Russell P. Dobash [et al.]. 3. Immunology on the street: how nonscientists see the immune system / Emily Martin. 4. 'Feeling letdown': an exploration of an embodied sensation associated with breastfeeding / Cathryn Britton. 5. Going with the flow: some central discourses in conceptualising and articulating the embodiment of emotional states / Deborah Lupton -- Pt. II. Health and illness. 6. Malignant bodies: children's beliefs about health, cancer and risk / Simon J. Williams and Gillian A. Bendelow. 7. Falling out with my shadow: lay perceptions of the body in the context of arthritis / Bethan Williams and Julie H. Barlow. 8. The body, health and self in the middle years / Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Kathryn Backett-Milburn |
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Pt. III. Gender. 9. Running around like a lunatic: Colin's body and the case of male embodiment / Jonathan Watson. 10. The body resists: everyday clerking and unmilitary practice / Paul Higate. 11. Natural for women, abnormal for men: beliefs about pain and gender / Gillian A. Bendelow and Simon J. Williams. 12. Embodied obligation: the female body and health surveillance / Alexandra Howson -- Pt. IV. Ageing. 13. The sight of age / Bill Bytheway and Julia Johnson. 14. 'Growing old gracefully' as opposed to 'mutton dressed as lamb': the social construction of recognising older women / Eileen Fairhurst. 15. The male menopause: lay accounts and the cultural reconstruction of midlife / Mike Hepworth and Mike Featherstone |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects.
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Mind and body.
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Social medicine.
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| Author |
Nettleton, Sarah, 1960-
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Watson, Jonathan, 1960-
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| LC no. |
97044695 |
| ISBN |
0415162009 (hardcover) |
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0415162017 (paperback) |
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