The Routledge Handbook of the Body.

In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies -- such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonic...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Turner, Bryan S.
Other Authors: Davis, Kathy, Evans, Mary, Pitts, Victoria, Weinberg, Darin, Soon-Hee, Whang
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012
Series:Routledge international handbooks.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Routledge Handbook of Body Studies; Copyright Page; Contents; Editorial Board; List of contributors; Introduction: The Turn of the Body: Bryan S. Turner; Body, Self and Society; 1. Simone de Beauvoir and Binaries of the Body: Mary Evans; 2. Pragmatism's Embodied Philosophy: From Immediate Experience to Somaesthetics: Richard Shusterman; 3. Norbert Elias and the Body: Mike Atkinson; 4. Embodied Practice: Martin Heidegger, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault: Bryan S. Turner; 5. My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interactionism, Autoethnography and Embodiment: Ken Plummer.
  • 6. Feminist Theory: Bodies, Science and Technology: Patricia Ticineto Clough7. Foucault's Body: Nikki Sullivan; What is a Body?; 8. Layers or Versions? Human Bodies and the Love of Bitterness: Annemarie Mol; 9. Phenomenology and the Body: Nick Crossley; 10. Social Constructionism and the Body: Darin Weinberg; 11. From Embodied Regulations to Hybrid Ontologies: Questioning: Stratos Naneglou; 12. Social Brains, Embodiment and Neuro-Interactionism: Victoria Pitts-Taylor; Religion and the Body.
  • 13. Relics of Faith: Fleshly Desires, Ascetic Disciplines and Devotional Affect in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement: Tulasi Srinivas14. The Body and the Veil: Sonja van Wichelen; 15. Recomposing Decimated Bodies: Nurit Stadler; Medical Regimes and the Body; 16. Death Signals Life: A Semiotics of the Corpse: Lianna Hart and Stefan Timmermans; 17. Beyond the Anorexic Paradigm: Re-Thinking 'Eating' Disorders: Susan Bordo; 18. Disability, Impairment and the Body: Christopher A. Faircloth; 19. The Body, Social Inequality and Health: Kevin White.
  • 20. Health and the Embodiment of the Life Course: Jenny Hockey and Allison JamesGender, Sexualities and Race; 21. Chinese Male Bodies: A Transnational Study of Masculinity and Sexuality: Travis S.K. Kong; 22. Male Bodies, Masculine Bodies, Men's Bodies: The Need for a Concept of Gex: Jeff Hearn; 23. Racialized Bodies: Maxine Leeds Craig; Technologies and Body Modification; 24. Getting Work Done: Cosmetic Surgery as Constraint, as Commodity, as Commonplace: Heather Laine Talley; 25. Modified Bodies: Texts, Projects and Process: Paul Sweetman.
  • 26. Questions of Life and Death: A Genealogy: Tiago Moreira and Paolo Palladino27. Rejecting the Aging Body: Alex Dumas; 28. Conclusion: The Varieties of My Body: Pain, Ethics and Illusio: Arthur W. Frank; Index.