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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... machines that otherwise persist in living for us . We look good to ourselves in machines : they are the natural extensions of our narcissistic selves . They magnify us , and at the same time amplify the world we have chosen to create ...
... machine : radio / TV camera stimulation of implanted electrodes to give ' phantom ' sight to the blind ... machines ) Heat : temporary implants ( e.g. half - heart by - pass ) Heart : total replacement Heart valves Bladder ...
... machines are theoretically troublesome ... The particular pair ( body , machine ) were formerly connected and contrasted by analogy , in that they provided metaphors for different aspects of human nature . It is their metaphorical ...