Embodiment
Clinical, Critical And Cultural Perspectives On Health And Illness
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2004
225 pages
978-0-335-22627-6 (ISBN)
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This is the first book to explore the idea of embodiment across a wide range of clinical contexts. Adopting a critical and cultural perspective, the book stresses the importance of understanding people through their lived experiences and constructions of their own body.
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Malcolm Maclachlan
Embodiment: Clinical, Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Illness
Clinical, Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Illness
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09/2004
Open University Press
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Content
- Front cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- The gaze
- Series editors' foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 01 Body plasticity
- The idea of embodiment
- Being-in-the-world
- The mirror phase
- The gaze
- An embodied brain?
- Embodied language
- Body images
- Brain plasticity
- Psychological images
- Body cosmesis
- The body as a message
- The body as a cultural icon
- Chapter summary
- Discussion points
- Key reading
- Chapter 02 Sensing self
- Embodied language
- Disembodied language
- Distancing the body
- Searching for self in chronic pain
- Living with an unwanted self
- A body separate from the self
- The meaning of illness
- Falling ill
- Somatic symbolism
- Somatic .xation
- Romantic science
- Organic moorings
- Unpossessed bodies
- Chapter summary
- Discussion points
- Key reading
- Chapter 03 Somatic complaints
- Somatic complaints
- Stress
- Heart ache
- Immunology
- Health economics
- Somatoforms
- Somatization
- Somatized depression
- Functional syndromes
- Hysteria
- Mass hysteria
- Hystories
- Neuropsychiatric disorders
- Misidentification
- On being in-valid
- Self-division
- Stigma
- Reclaiming the body
- Body history and abuse
- Moving bodies on
- Chapter summary
- Discussion points
- Key reading
- Chapter 04 Body sculpturing
- Physiognomy
- Phrenology
- Somatotypes
- Tweenagers
- Svelte as a gazelle
- Regenesis
- Fat land
- Ideals and actuals
- Eating disorders
- Reverse anorexia nervosa
- Cultural change and eating disorders
- Veiling the body
- Cosmetic surgery
- Sexual response and dysfunction
- Bending gender
- Paraphilias
- Chapter summary
- Discussion points
- Key reading
- Chapter 05 Illusory body experiences
- Deities, fictions and phantoms: a brief history
- The meaning of limb loss
- Characteristics of phantom limb pain (PLP)
- Paradoxes of pain
- Phantoms in the brain?
- Doing it with mirrors
- Plastic Bodies
- Augmenting reality
- What is me?
- Schooling the phantom
- Reaching with electricity
- Prosthetic embodiment
- Body imagery
- Psychodynamic perspectives
- Socio-economic factors
- Chapter summary
- Discussion points
- Key reading
- Note
- Chapter 06 Enabling technologies
- The body as a machine
- Technology for people
- Technology, disability and constructing meaning
- Ways of being with technology
- Levels of technological engagement
- Monitoring the production line
- Nesting babies
- Hello Dolly!
- When do people begin?
- Organ transplantation
- Pillage of the body
- Brain dead?
- On keeping others' hands to yourself
- Giving and receiving
- Technological enframing
- ICU are trying to kill me . . .
- Torturing patients
- Virtual realities
- Mindful demise of the body
- Cybersickness
- Chapter summary
- Discussion points
- Key reading
- Chapter 07 Forms of embodiment
- The cultural body
- The objectified body
- Transitional objects
- The conscious body
- Questions
- References
- Index
- Back cover
