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  • Women, Body, Illness

    Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness

    by Isabel Dyck, Pamela Moss ...
    This provocative and moving work explores concepts of body and space to better understand the daily lives and struggles of women with chronic illness. Moss and Dyck show how such women-coping with associated notions of illness, health, and being female-restructure their physical and social environments through the strategies they choose to accommodate disabling illnesses such as chronic fatigue ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Bodies Across Borders

    The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals

    by Bronwyn Parry, Beth Greenhough, Isabel Dyck ...
    Historically organised at a local or national scale, the fields of medicine and healthcare are being radically transformed by new communication, transport and biotechnologies creating, in the process, a genuinely globalised sphere of biomedical production and consumption. This emerging market is characterised by the circulation of bodily materials (tissues, organs and bio-information), patients ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Geographies of Women's Health

    Place, Diversity and Difference

    Edited by Nancy Davis Lewis, Isabel Dyck, Sara McLafferty ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
    This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world. The chapters work together in examining the complex layering of social, economic and political relations that frame women's health. The authors demonstrate that women's health needs to be understood 'in place' if gains are to be made in ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

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  • Contesting Illness

    Process and Practices

    Edited by Pamela Moss, Kathy Teghtsoonian ...
    The relationship between power and illness is the subject of limited discussion despite it being one of the most important issues in health-related policies and services. In an effort to correct this, Contesting Illness engages critically with processes through which the meanings and effects of illness shape and are shaped by specific sets of practices. Featuring original contributions by ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • The Body and Social Theory

    by Chris Shilling ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "Great to have a new edition - this is essential reading and provides a clear, accessible yet original overview of social theory and the body."- Sarah Nettleton***, University of York***"Lucidly argued and accessibly written, this book avoids the pitfalls of either too much naturalism or too much social constructivism. It is a book with something for everyone, from the classics in social theory on ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Gene Worship

    Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender

    by Gisela Kaplan, Lesley J. Rogers ...
    "A wonderful antidote to the gene hysteria that is now so dominant! . . . What is most exciting about this book is the authors' ability to move seamlessly from research on how the brain works, to sociology, history, and philosophy. And that, I believe, is exactly how we need to understand gender--neither nature nor nurture, but a complex interplay." - Dr. Lynda Birke, author of Feminism and the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

    by Rita Charon, Sayantani DasGupta, Nellie Hermann, Craig Irvine, Eric R. Marcus, Edgar Rivera Colsn, Danielle Spencer, Maura Spiegel ...
    Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Foucault, Health and Medicine

    Edited by Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Reflexivity and Qualitative Research

    by Jane Gilgun ...
    Researchers' own experiences affect every aspect of the research they do, from conceptualization of the issues to be researched, relationships with research participants, to interpretation of findings, to writing up results, to dissemination. This article discusses reflexivity and provides examples of what it is.Reflexivity is important topic for qualitative researchers to consider and to ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Women

    The Embodied Self in Image Culture

    by Carla Rice ...
    In a culture where beauty is currency, women’s bodies are often perceived as measures of value and worth. The search for visibility and self-acceptance can be daunting, especially for those on the cultural margins of “beauty.”Becoming Women offers a thoughtful examination of the search for identity in an image-oriented world. That search is told through the experiences of a group of women who came ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Reading and Writing Disability Differently

    The Textured Life of Embodiment

    by Tanya Titchkosky ...
    Mixing rigorous social theory with concrete analysis, Reading and Writing Disability Differently unpacks the marginality of disabled people by addressing how the meaning of our bodily existence is configured in everyday literate society.Tanya Titchkosky begins by illustrating how news media and policy texts reveal dominant Western ways of constituting the meaning of people, and the meaning of ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Body in Society

    An Introduction

    by Alexandra Howson ...
    In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the sociology of the body examines what certain aspects of our bodies, such as the size, shape, smell and demeanour, reveal about the social organization of everyday life and how the body is crucial to the way we ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD