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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... result of any- thing else than a human preference for order and calculability concele- brated in the least resource ... results other than those destined to be achieved by the exact natural sciences but it was no less scientific and its ...
... result of genetic seed improvements and the use of fertilizers and pesticides . We ignore the health hazards resulting from these procedures , though they bear , of course , on the issues to be considered in the later chapter on medical ...
... result from its intervention now cause more suffering than all the accidents in traffic and industry . Only the organic damage done by the industrial production of food can rival the ill- health induced by doctors . In addition ...