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Body Work in Health and Social Care: Critical Themes, New Agendas

Julia Twigg (Editor), Carol Wolkowitz (Editor), Rachel Lara Cohen (Editor), Sarah Nettleton (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4987-0
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182 pages
October 2011
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Notes on Contributors vii

1 Conceptualising body work in health and social care 1
Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen and Sarah Nettleton

2 Time, space and touch at work: body work and labour process (re)organisation 19
Rachel Lara Cohen

3 Managing the body work of home care 36
Kim England and Isabel Dyck

4 The means of correct training: embodied regulation in training for body work among mothers 50
Emma Wainwright, Elodie Marandet and Sadaf Rizvi

5 From body-talk to body-stories: body work in complementary and alternative medicine 67
Nicola Kay Gale

6 Educating with the hands: working on the body⁄self in Alexander Technique 81
Jennifer Tarr

7 Treating women’s sexual diffi culties: the body work of sexual therapy 94
Thea Cacchioni and Carol Wolkowitz

8 Actions speak louder than words: the embodiment of trust by healthcare professionals in gynae-oncology 108
Patrick R. Brown, Andy Alaszewski, Trish Swift and Andy Nordin

9 Body work in respiratory physiological examinations 123
Per Måseide

10 In a moment of mismatch: overseas doctors’ adjustments in new hospital environments 134
Anna Harris

11 The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers’ contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK 147
Parvati Raghuram, Joanna Bornat and Leroi Henry

12 Afterword: Body work and the sociological tradition 162
Chris Shilling

Index 167

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