Explorations in Sociology.

Cunningham-Burley, S.; Backett-Milburn, K.

This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. It draws together a range of empirical work on different themes, each taking the body and its study as its central problematic. It creatively combines contributions on disability, illness, scars, sleep, complementary medicine, running, as well as the lifecourse themes of childhood, youth and death. The different approaches to researching the body examined through these contributions include autobiography, case-studies, interviews and participant observation.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-09-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333775950

DOI: 10.1057/9780230501966

Dimensions: 203cm x127cm

Pages: 246