The Body in Health and Social Care
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The Body in Health and Social Care -- The field of health and social care -- New writing on the body -- The limitations of cultural analyses -- Downplaying the bodily -- Conclusion -- 2 Debates About the Body -- The sources of the debate -- Feminist influences -- Foucault and poststructuralism -- The body, consumption and identity -- Real bodies: Towards a more concrete embodiment -- Dimensions of difference -- Conclusion -- 3 The Body and Ageing -- The neglect of the body in ageing studies -- Aged by culture -- Ageism and the body -- Ageing in consumer culture -- Limitations of culturalist approaches -- The challenge of the Fourth Age -- Conclusion -- 4 Disability and the Body -- Revising the social model: Refocussing on the body -- Representing disability: Visual culture -- Disability, eugenics and the new genetics -- Disability and sexuality -- Gender and disability -- Conclusion -- 5 The Body in Medicine and Health Care -- The medical construction of the body: The dominate paradigm -- Dissection and the use of body parts -- Organ donation and transplants -- The patient's experience of embodiment -- Bodywork in health care -- Embodied practitioners -- The body in alternative medicine -- Conclusion -- 6 Diet, Health and the Body: Obesity and Eating Disorders -- Eating disorders -- The rise of obesity -- The politics of ingestion -- Conclusion -- 7 Home Care: The Body in Domestic Time and Space -- The absent body of social care -- Personal care -- Spatio-temporal ordering: The body in domestic time and space -- Spatio-temporal re-ordering -- Conclusion -- 8 The Bodywork of Care -- Bodywork as an occupational category -- The bodywork of care -- Carework and women's employment -- Gender and bodywork -- Conclusion.