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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... rethink the civic legacy bequeathed to us in the sociopoetics of the first humans whose families and gods have survived most of the history of our own inhumanity and are still alive in the most ordinary places of mankind. If we have ...
... rethink their procedures: witness the reinvention of holistic medicine. In any case, we cannot treat the anatomy and physiology of the body as paradigmatic of what persons are required to know about bodily conduct and comportment in ...
... rethink the body (Mauss, 1973). It is even more difficult to understand how we can rethink institutions with our bodies. But this is what we shall be doing in this book. Michel Foucault has brought to our attention the difficult notion ...
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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 |