Regulating Bodies: Essays in Medical Sociology

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Routledge, Sep 11, 2002 - Social Science - 288 pages
Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously.
 

Contents

towards the somatic society
1
Introduction
15
Part I Discovering bodies
29
Part II Medical sociology
123
Part III Regimes of regulation
175
an interview with Richard Fardon
229
Bryan S Turners publications on the sociology of the body and medical sociology
263
Name index
266
Subject index
272
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Bryan Turner is Professor of Sociology at Essex University.

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