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 |
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... moral chaos. We do, more or less. But I think we survive by living off borrowed moral capital. Therefore I want to raise the old question: who makes us? This is the anthropomorphic question. By asking it and in looking for responses to ...
... moral condemnation. Thus, even the physical body is, morally speaking, more than a simple object for biological study or medical practice and may in fact require us to rethink their procedures: witness the reinvention of holistic ...
... moral basis of all society and of the practice of any social science. We cannot escape life among others. Our bodies commit us from the first moment of life to the company of those who have grown up and who, in turn, oblige themselves ...
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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 |