Simon Williams

Medicine and the Body/ - New York: SAGE, 2012.

Introduction: Medical Sociology in the New Millennium
Chapter 1: The Biomedical Body: Reductionism, Constructionism and Beyond
Chapter 2: What is Health? Thinking through the Boundaries of the Body
Chapter 3: ‘Structuring’ Bodies: Emotions, Inequalities and Health
Chapter 4: Children, Ageing and Health: Bodies Across the Lifecourse
Chapter 5: Bodily Dys-order: Chronic Illness as Biographical Disruption?
Chapter 6: Dormant/Mortal Bodies: Sleep, Death and Dying in Late/Postmodernity
Chapter 7: Reason, Emotion and ‘Mental’ Health: Where Do We Draw the Line?
Chapter 8: Hi-Tech Bodies: From Corporeality to Hyperreality?
Chapter 9: Caring Bodies/Embodied Ethics


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