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 |
From inside the book
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... social ' body ' , into five categories named after a part of the body or a muscle . Since a stranger must not be ques- tioned , he announces his kinship by moving the relevant muscle . In this case , too , therefore , the total system ...
... social architectonics whose characteristic feature is always to couple an exterior intervention with conflicts or differences of potential within the family : the protection of poor children which allowed for the destruction of the ...
... social organization of the more exotic prosthetics of biomedicine : - The ways in which society organizes and structures its social institutions - and particularly its health and welfare systems - can encourage or discourage the ...