Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner

Regulating Bodies

Essays in Medical Sociology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bryan Turner is the key figure in the sociological debate about the body. In this stimulating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 139mm x 217mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780415514866
• ISBN-10: 041551486X
• Artikelnr.: 36375316

Autorenporträt

Bryan Turner is Professor of Sociology at Essex University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 Discovering bodies
Chapter 1 The body question
Chapter 2 The absent body in structuration theory
Chapter 3 Reflections on the epistemology of the hand
Part 2 Medical sociology
Chapter 4 The interdisciplinary curriculum
Chapter 5 The body and medical sociology
Part 3 Regimes of regulation
Chapter 6 The government of the body
Chapter 7 The anatomy lesson
Chapter 8 The talking disease
Conclusion