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Regulating Bodies: Essays in Medical Sociology
Regulating Bodies Essays in Medical Sociology Author:Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner Bryan Turner's latest book provides a framework for the development of the study of the body-as-social construct, a new sub-field in sociology. Through the examination of various philosophical traditions--phenomenology, philosophical anthropology, structuralism, and postmodernism--Regulating Bodies shows how the human body has long been ignored ... more »or neglected by mainstream social theory. Turner integrates these different traditions, demonstrating how this absence has not only impoverished the sociology of health and illness, but the very foundations of sociology itself. In providing a general account of the problem of the body in modern society, this book builds on Turner's previous studies of The Body and Society (1984) and Medical Power and Social Knowledge (1987), attempting to solve many of the existing epistemological and theoretical difficulties in social theories of the body.« less