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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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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
  • Health
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Health attitudes
  • Mind and body
  • Identification (Psychology)
  • Sick > Psychology
  • Attitude to Health
  • Identification, Psychological
  • Sick Role
  • Health
  • health
  • Sick > Psychology
  • Health attitudes
  • Mind and body
  • Hälsa > sociologiska aspekter
  • Hälsa > psykologiska aspekter
  • Sjukdomsupplevelser
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