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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... object like other objects that surround us . As such , our physical body can be bumped into , knocked over , crushed , and destroyed . Yet , even as we say this , our language is estranged or alienated from the lived body , that is ...
... object for biological study or medical practice and may in fact require us to rethink their procedures : witness the reinvention of holistic medicine . In any case , we cannot treat the anatomy and physiology of the body as paradigmatic ...
... object are experimented with in a synthesis of natural and social events . And in terms of another analogy science is like a game inasmuch as both create events through the imposition of a structure , whereas bricolage and myth resemble ...