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
Results 6-10 of 53
... individual - and remodelled the " Institutional " form without , however , entirely depriving the individual of his specific faculty of thinking . Indeed , in addition to being the agent of mental logic , the individual is also , it ...
... individual . Who else can experience the n - of - 1 trial that life represents but the individual herself or himself ? Who else can report the deepest aspirations and fears , the fondest goals and fulfillment , the meaning of the ...
... individual not only acted upon by the environment and molded thereby but the environment reacted upon by the individual who endeavors to shape it to his needs . It therefore follows that the most complete mental life is that which best ...
... individual shall have a right to receive , if practicable , a computer print - out or a photocopy of CORI , including personal identifiers , referring to him or her . ( 2 ) If no CORI referring to the requesting individual can be found ...
... individual . 22 ( 2 ) " A candidate or other individual may be reimbursed for expenses paid out by that individua ! or candidate if : ( a ) The expenditures made by said individual or candidate , for which he or she is being reimbursed ...
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 |