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Embodying health identities
- Title
- Embodying health identities / Allison James, Jenny Hockey.
- Author
- James, Allison.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hockey, Jennifer Lorna.
- Description
- ix, 199 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Drawing on a range of literature in the field of health and illness, this book brings together sociological, anthropological and health policy perspectives. It explores theories of embodiment in relation to the ritual drama of illness, medical technologies, the life course and representation of health and illness.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-191) and index.
- Contents
- Problematising health, illness and identity -- Theorising health and illness -- Towards embodiment -- The problem of illness -- Representing the body's health and identity -- The ritual drama of illness -- A medicalised life course -- Negotiating the body's limits.
- ISBN
- 9781403914729
- 1403914729
- 9781403914736
- 1403914737
- LCCN
- 2006047649
- OCLC
- ocm70778377
- 70778377
- SCSB-14652150
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library