Body Work in Health and Social Care: Critical Themes, New AgendasISBN: 978-1-4443-4987-0
Paperback
182 pages
October 2011
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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