By Lisa Jean Moore,Monica J. Casper
ISBN-10: 0415821959
ISBN-13: 9780415821957
ISBN-10: 0415821967
ISBN-13: 9780415821964
This college-level guide deals a entire and obtainable evaluate of sociological and cultural views at the human physique. equipped alongside the traces of a typical anatomical textbook delineated through physique elements and approaches, this quantity subverts the anticipated content material in prefer of supplying instruments for social and cultural research.
Students will know about the human physique in its social, cultural, and political contexts, with emphasis on a number of, contested meanings of the physique, physique components, and structures. Case reports, examples, and dialogue questions are either US-based and foreign. Advancing severe physique reports, the ebook explicitly discusses our bodies with regards to race, classification, gender, sexuality, skill, age, health and wellbeing, geography, and citizenship prestige. The framing is sociological instead of biomedical, aware of cultural meanings, institutional practices, politics, and social difficulties. The authors use often understood anatomical frames to debate social, cultural, political, and moral concerns relating embodiment.
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