Social Policy and the Body : Transitions in Corporeal Discourse
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0333713850
ISBN-13
9780333713853
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
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Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 20th, 1999
Print length
219 Pages
Product Classification:
AnthropologySocial welfare & social servicesSocial welfare, social policy and social services
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The body as a focus for power and resistance in differing welfare regimes is further explored in individual contributions on health and social care, bodily metaphors in social policy and the relationship between animal and human welfare.
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Towards and Embodied Account of Welfare; H.Dean Welfare and Bodily Order; Theorising Transitions in Corporeal Discourse; K.Ellis The Care of the Body; K.Ellis The ''Gift'' of Body Organs; G.Randhawa Bodies and Dualism; A.Assiter Bodily Metaphors and Welfare Regimes; H.Dean Body, Mind Expertise: Notes on the Polarisation of Health Care Discourse; H.Paley Labouring Bodies: Mothers and Maternity Policy; F.Brooks and H.Lomax Disciplinary Interventions and Resistances around ''Safer Sex''; M.Mitchell The Equality of Bodies: Animal Exploitation and Human Welfare; J.Parry and N.Parry References Index
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