`An intelligent and informed account of medical sociology. Simon Williams has produced an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centrality of the body to an understanding of medicine, health and illness. His scope is impressive... It will shape future teaching and research in the field of health and illness' - Bryan S Turner, Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge This is a clear, well-written account of medicine, health and the body. Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically reexamines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness. Included here are cutting edge discussions and debates concerning: - the medicalized body - health inequalities - childhood and ageing - the dilemmas of high-tech medicine - chronic illness and disability - caring and (bio)ethics - sleep, death and dying - the body in late/postmodernity Written in an accessible, engaging style, with many original and innovative insights, the book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, and to researchers and lecturers with an interest in the embodied agendas of health and medicine in the new millennium.

Hi-Tech Bodies: From Corporeality to Hyperreality?

Hi-Tech Bodies: From Corporeality to Hyperreality?

Hi-tech bodies: From corporeality to hyperreality?

Medicine is making the news for a variety of reasons these days, some better than others. A prime headline maker, in this respect, concerns the seemingly endless series of medical ‘breakthroughs’ which are now occurring, itself part and parcel of both the media's hunger for stories and broader trends and developments in biotechnologies at the dawn of the new millennium. Open a paper, turn on the television, listen to the radio or surf the Internet, and there, ready and waiting for you, are an array of amazing, bewildering, dazzling or terrifying tales of these ‘cutting-edge’ technologies – from the latest fads and fashions in cosmetic surgery, to debates on xenotransplantation, and from advances in ...

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