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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The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body
work features in health and social care and the meanings of this
work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies
they work.
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Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social care
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Contributions come from an international range of experts
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Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fields
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Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic studies and first person accounts