The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body
work features in health and social care and the meanings of this
work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies
they work.
* Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work,
including those outside health and social care
* Contributions come from an international range of
experts
* Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic,
and care fields
* Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life
history analysis to ethnographic studies and first person
accounts
विषयसूची
Notes on Contributors vii
1 Conceptualising body work in health and social care 1
Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen and Sarah
Nettleton
2 Time, space and touch at work: body work and labour process
(re)organisation 19
Rachel Lara Cohen
3 Managing the body work of home care 36
Kim England and Isabel Dyck
4 The means of correct training: embodied regulation in training
for body work among mothers 50
Emma Wainwright, Elodie Marandet and Sadaf Rizvi
5 From body-talk to body-stories: body work in complementary and
alternative medicine 67
Nicola Kay Gale
6 Educating with the hands: working on the body/self in
Alexander Technique 81
Jennifer Tarr
7 Treating women’s sexual diffi culties: the body work of
sexual therapy 94
Thea Cacchioni and Carol Wolkowitz
8 Actions speak louder than words: the embodiment of trust by
healthcare professionals in gynae-oncology 108
Patrick R. Brown, Andy Alaszewski, Trish Swift and Andy
Nordin
9 Body work in respiratory physiological examinations 123
Per Måseide
10 In a moment of mismatch: overseas doctors’ adjustments
in new hospital environments 134
Anna Harris
11 The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant
workers’ contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK
147
Parvati Raghuram, Joanna Bornat and Leroi Henry
12 Afterword: Body work and the sociological tradition 162
Chris Shilling
Index 167
लेखक के बारे में
Julia Twigg is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at
University of Kent and a specialist in old age, care and
embodiment. Her books include The Body in Health and Social
Care (2006).
Carol Wolkowitz is Reader in Sociology at University of
Warwick and has written widely on gender and the sociology of work
and employment. Her books include Bodies at Work (2006).
Rachel Lara Cohen is Lecturer at the University of
Surrey, and a specialist in sociology of work and employment. Her
books include Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and
Researching Gender (with C Hughes, 2011).
Sarah Nettleton is a Reader in the Department of
Sociology at the University of York and has researched and
published on a range of health-related topics, all with a focus on
the sociology of the body and embodiment. Her books include
Sociology of Health and Illness (2006).
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