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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- The Family and the State: An Introduction -- Part One: Debating Family State Relations -- 1 The State and the Family -- 2 Family Life, Moral Regulation and the State: Social Steering and the Personal Sphere -- 3 Family Breakdown, Individualism and the Issue of the Relationship between Family Law and Behaviour in Post-War Britain -- Part Two: The Family and the State across the Lifecourse -- 4 Lone Parents and Child Support: Parental and State Responsibilities -- 5 Family Change and the Ageing Welfare State -- Part Three: Challenging the State Framing of Social Issues -- 6 Black Families and Survival -- 7 And One Man in His Time Plays Many Parts: the Five Ages of Impairment -- 8 Scapegoating and Moral Panics: Teenage Pregnancy in Britain and the United States -- 9 Youth, Dependence and the Problem of Support -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. It draws together a range of empirical work on different themes, each taking the body and its study as its central problematic. It creatively combines contributions on disability, illness, scars, sleep, complementary medicine, running, as well as the lifecourse themes of childhood, youth and death. The different approaches to researching the body examined through these contributions include autobiography, case-studies, interviews and participant observation.