Body Work in Health and Social Care: Critical Themes, New Agendas
Copyright © Chapters © 2011 The Authors Book compilation © 2011 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness / Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Editor(s): Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen, Sarah Nettleton
Published Online: 20 SEP 2011 09:44AM EST
Print ISBN: 9781444349870
Online ISBN: 9781444345865
DOI: 10.1002/9781444345865
Series Editor(s): Hannah Bradby
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The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work.
- Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social care
- Contributions come from an international range of experts
- Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fields
- Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic studies and first person accounts