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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... mind and the body could attack themselves – as with cancer, Alzheimer's disease and AIDS. Finally, the genetic body forms by replication rather than learning and socialization. It is the biological constant of selfhood. The neural ...
... minds, not in our bodies. Such, at any rate, might be concluded from centuries of religious, philosophical, and educational practice. We conceive of public order dualistically, that is to say as the rule of mind over matter, or of ...
... mind that the reduction of the communicative body to the sexual body is a historical process that distorts the gendered cosmology that governed nature, society and the human body subordinating it to the industrialization of nature and ...
... mind. Thus, the satisfaction of our 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 ...
... mind is naturally inclined by the senses to see itself externally in the body and only with great difficulty does it come to understand itself by means of reflection. This axiom gives us the universal principle of etymology in all ...
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 |