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Problematising Health, Illness and Identity | |
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In Sickness and in Health | |
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Who Says I am Ill? Illness as a Social Construction | |
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Health Identities and Illness Experiences | |
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Being and Bodies | |
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The Negotiated and Embodied Body | |
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Towards Embodiment: The Body, Health and Identity | |
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Theorising Health and Illness | |
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The Individual and Society | |
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The Individual in Society | |
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Theorising the Medical Encounter | |
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The Social Construction of Health and Illness | |
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The Social Construction of Health and Illness: The Feminist Contribution | |
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The Social Construction of Health and Illness: The Contribution of Foucault | |
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Agency, Health and Illness | |
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Structure, Agency and the Body | |
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Conclusion | |
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Towards Embodiment | |
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Models of the Body | |
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Why Embodiment? | |
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Social Constructionism, Medical Sociology and the Body | |
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Experiencing the Body | |
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The Lived Reality of the Body | |
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Real Lived Bodies? | |
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Towards a Theory of Embodiment | |
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The Phenomenon of the Lived Body | |
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Embodiment and Society | |
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Bodies and Risk | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Problem of Illness | |
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Defining Illness | |
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Who is Ill? | |
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Why Me? | |
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Staying Healthy? | |
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Illness as a Problem of Identity | |
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The Problem of Illness and the Problem of Identification | |
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Conclusion: The Problem of Embodiment in the Problem of Illness | |
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Representing the Body's Health and Identity | |
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Re-presenting Representations | |
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Representing the Hegemony of Bio-medicine | |
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Health 'Information' | |
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Encountering Representations of Health and Illness | |
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Authoritative Representations | |
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Self Presentation and Re-presentation | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Ritual Drama of Illness | |
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Illness as a Rite of Passage | |
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Illness as a Drama | |
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Embodiment within the Ritual Drama of Illness | |
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Health Transitions and Transformations | |
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The Drama Unfolds | |
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Illness Narratives | |
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Strategies of Narration | |
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Experiencing the Ritual Drama of Illness | |
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Conclusion | |
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A Medicalised Life Course? | |
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What is the Life Course? | |
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Constructing the Object Body across the Life Course | |
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Determining the Health of 'the Child' through the Body | |
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Old Bodies, Young Bodies | |
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The Medicalisation of the Child's Body | |
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Health and Ageing across the Life Course? | |
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Health Experiences across the Life Course | |
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Feeling and Being Old | |
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Being Sick as a Child | |
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Conclusion | |
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Negotiating the Body's Limits | |
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Technology in Practice | |
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The Medical Encounter Resituated | |
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Indeterminacy and Interpretation | |
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Bodies and Technology as Embodied Practice | |
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Individual Bodies, Commodified Bodies and Relational Bodies | |
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Health, Identity and New Reproductive Technologies | |
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The Global Politics of Technology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Conclusion | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |