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Author MacLachlan, Malcolm

Title Embodiment : clinical, critical, and cultural perspectives on health and illness / Malcolm MacLachlan
Published Maidenhead ; New York : Open University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) : illustrations, portrait
Series Health psychology
Health psychology.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Body plasticity -- 2. Sensing self -- 3. Somatic complaints -- 4. Body sculpturing -- 5. Illusory body experiences -- 6. Enabling technologies
Summary This book is for students of psychology, medicine, nursing and other health sciences. It lucidly illustrates why neither a simplistic mind-body dichotomy, nor the parallelism of the biopsychosocial model, sufficiently captures people's experience of being a body. Such experience is most salient when the body is in some way distressed, diseased, disordered, disabled or dismembered. Adding to the intriguing sociological and philosophical literature on embodiment, the book illustrates how such a seemingly abstract term has tremendous clinical significance to many people's experience. Drawing a parallel with recent exciting work on neural plasticity, "Embodiment" illustrates how we are now in an age of 'body plasticity'; where our body boundaries are becoming increasingly ambiguous, allowing us more 'degrees of freedom' and offering more opportunities than ever before to overcome physical limitations. The book draws on research from diverse areas, including health and clinical psychology, neuroscience, medicine, nursing, anthropology, philosophy and sociology: it is a key resource for students of these disciplines
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-200) and index
Notes English
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Subject Human body -- Social aspects.
Mind and body.
Medical anthropology.
Human Body -- Case Reports
Self Concept -- Case Reports
Disease -- psychology -- Case Reports
Health -- Case Reports
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Human body -- Social aspects
Medical anthropology
Mind and body
Lichaam en geest.
Lichamelijkheid.
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
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