Body Work in Health and Social Care
Critical Themes, New Agendas
Erschienen am 26. April 2011
184 Seiten
978-1-4443-4583-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which bodywork features in health and social care and the meanings of thiswork both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodiesthey work.
* Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work,including those outside health and social care
* Contributions come from an international range ofexperts
* Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic,and care fields
* Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from lifehistory analysis to ethnographic studies and first personaccounts
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Julia Twigg | Carol Wolkowitz | Rachel Lara Cohen
Body Work in Health and Social Care
Critical Themes, New Agendas
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09/2011
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Julia Twigg | Carol Wolkowitz | Rachel Lara Cohen
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Julia Twigg is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology atUniversity of Kent and a specialist in old age, care andembodiment. Her books include The Body in Health and SocialCare (2006).
Carol Wolkowitz is Reader in Sociology at University ofWarwick and has written widely on gender and the sociology of workand employment. Her books include Bodies at Work (2006).
Rachel Lara Cohen is Lecturer at the University ofSurrey, and a specialist in sociology of work and employment. Herbooks include Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods andResearching Gender (with C Hughes, 2011).
Sarah Nettleton is a Reader in the Department ofSociology at the University of York and has researched andpublished on a range of health-related topics, all with a focus onthe sociology of the body and embodiment. Her books includeSociology of Health and Illness (2006).
Inhalt
Notes on Contributors vii
1 Conceptualising body work in health and social care 1
Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen and SarahNettleton
2 Time, space and touch at work: body work and labour process(re)organisation 19
Rachel Lara Cohen
3 Managing the body work of home care 36
Kim England and Isabel Dyck
4 The means of correct training: embodied regulation in trainingfor body work among mothers 50
Emma Wainwright, Elodie Marandet and Sadaf Rizvi
5 From body-talk to body-stories: body work in complementary andalternative medicine 67
Nicola Kay Gale
6 Educating with the hands: working on the body/self inAlexander Technique 81
Jennifer Tarr
7 Treating women's sexual diffi culties: the body work ofsexual therapy 94
Thea Cacchioni and Carol Wolkowitz
8 Actions speak louder than words: the embodiment of trust byhealthcare professionals in gynae-oncology 108
Patrick R. Brown, Andy Alaszewski, Trish Swift and AndyNordin
9 Body work in respiratory physiological examinations 123
Per Måseide
10 In a moment of mismatch: overseas doctors' adjustmentsin new hospital environments 134
Anna Harris
11 The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrantworkers' contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK147
Parvati Raghuram, Joanna Bornat and Leroi Henry
12 Afterword: Body work and the sociological tradition 162
Chris Shilling
Index 167
