Williams Medicine and the Body

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4462-6525-3
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 242 mm

`An intelligent and informed account of medical sociology. Simon Williams has produced an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centrality of the body to an understanding of medicine, health and illness. His scope is impressive. It will shape future teaching and research in the field of health and illness' - Bryan S Turner, Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge

This is a clear, well-written account of medicine, health and the body. Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically reexamines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness. Included here are cutting edge discussions and debates concerning:

- the medicalized body

- health inequalities

- childhood and ageing

- the dilemmas of high-tech medicine

- chronic illness and disability

- caring and (bio)ethics

- sleep, death and dying

- the body in late/postmodernity

Written in an accessible, engaging style, with many original and innovative insights, the book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, and to researchers and lecturers with an interest in the embodied agendas of health and medicine in the new millennium.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Simon Johnson

Williams, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Medical Sociology in the New Millennium The Biomedical Body Reductionism, Constructionism and Beyond What Is Health? Thinking through the Boundaries of the Body `Structuring' Bodies Emotions, Inequalities and Health Children, Ageing and Health Bodies across the Lifecourse Bodily Dys-Order Chronic Illness a Biographical Disruption? Dormant/Mortal Bodies Sleep, Death and Dying in Late/Postmodernity Reason, Emotion and `Mental' Health Where Do We Draw the Line? Hi-Tech Bodies From Corporeality to Hyperreality? Caring Bodies/Embodied Ethics Conclusions The Challenges Ahead

Über Autor(innen)

Williams, Simon Johnson
Simon Williams is Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Sociology, University of Warwick