| Description |
1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 'Vegetables', 'vampires' and other hybrids; Body becoming self; Theorising the body; The intersubjective self; Destabilising dichotomies; Note; Chapter 2 The dying body; The individualising of self; Representing the 'real'; Shifting visualities; Viewing bodies: an historical perspective; Viewing bodies: contemporary issues; Conclusions; Chapter 3 Bodies without selves; Reading the 'finished' body; 'Health' as project in later life; The near departed; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Medicalising the body |
| Summary |
Presents a new and sophisticated approach to death, dying and bereavement, and the sociology of the body. The authors challenge existing theories that put the body at the centre of identity |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects.
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Death -- Social aspects
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Social medicine.
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Death -- Social aspects
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Social medicine
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jennifer, Lorna Hockey
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Glennys, Howarth
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| ISBN |
9780203982174 |
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0203982177 |
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