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Social Policy and the Body - Transitions in Corporeal Discourse

English · Hardback

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The opening chapters suggest that transitions in welfare capitalism can be understood in terms of shifts in dominant 'corporeal' discourses. The body as a focus for power and resistance in differing welfare regimes is further explored in individual contributions on health and social care, bodily metaphors in social policy and the relationship between animal and human welfare. In highlighting the significance of the body in social policy, the book opens up a novel, and potentially rich, vein of academic enquiry.

List of contents

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Towards and Embodied Account of Welfare; H.Dean Welfare and Bodily Order; Theorising Transitions in Corporeal Discourse; K.Ellis The Care of the Body; K.Ellis The 'Gift' of Body Organs; G.Randhawa Bodies and Dualism; A.Assiter Bodily Metaphors and Welfare Regimes; H.Dean Body, Mind Expertise: Notes on the Polarisation of Health Care Discourse; H.Paley Labouring Bodies: Mothers and Maternity Policy; F.Brooks and H.Lomax Disciplinary Interventions and Resistances around 'Safer Sex'; M.Mitchell The Equality of Bodies: Animal Exploitation and Human Welfare; J.Parry and N.Parry References Index

Product details

Assisted by Dean (Editor), H. dean (Editor), K Ellis (Editor), K. Ellis (Editor), Kenneth A Loparo (Editor)
Publisher Springer Palgrave Macmillan
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.12.1999
 
EAN 9780312220587
ISBN 978-0-312-22058-7
No. of pages 219
Weight 465 g
Illustrations XXV, 219 p.
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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