Five Bodies: Re-figuring RelationshipsFive Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. The book was first published in 1985 in the USA by Cornell University Press, and was nominated for the John Porter Award (sponsored by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association). A path breaking book, it offered a framework for the growing field of the sociology of the body and opened up ′the body′ for sociological research. This new edition (the previous edition was published by Cornell University Press (1985) has been substantially revised and updated to address today′s issues of the body in modern life, community and politics. John O′Neill examines how embodied selves and relationships are being re-shaped and re-figured and how the embodied figures of the polity, economy and society represent the contested notions of identity, desire, wholeness and fragmentation. He focuses upon those cultural practices through which we map our macro-micro worlds: · articulating a cosmology · a body politic · a productivensumptive economy · a bio-technological frontier of human design and transplantation |
From inside the book
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... bodily practice guarantees that the present offering can only hope to strike a chord here and there with those who still work towards a future that exceeds the grasp of our greedy present. Introduction The Prosthetic God We love to wear ...
... bodily presence to which we cannot be indifferent, to which we are as sensible in others as in ourselves (O'Neill, 1989). Because of the inseparability of these two bodies, we treat even the physical body as a moral body to which we owe ...
... bodily harms, and even those who are merely clumsy risk at least embarrassment, if not moral condemnation. Thus, even the physical body is, morally speaking, more than a simple object for biological study or medical practice and may in ...
... 128) Today we witness a growing movement in post-industrial societies to redefine bodily experience as nothing more than sheer labor power, to be managed as the docile instrument of commercial, educational, and medical 5 Introduction.
... bodily needs is never intended by those who care for us to yield in us a merely selfish pleasure. Human care initiates us into a tradition of caring whereby we learn to give back what we ourselves have received. This is an essential ...
Contents
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Social Bodies | 22 |
The Body Politic | 37 |
Consumer Bodies | 54 |
Medical Bodies | 66 |
Conclusion The Future Shape of Human Beings | 79 |
Bibliography | 89 |
Index | 95 |