ABSTRACT
Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
part |93 pages
Discovering bodies
chapter |32 pages
The absent body in structuration theory
chapter |23 pages
Reflections on the epistemology of the hand
part |52 pages
Medical sociology
chapter |24 pages
The body and medical sociology
part |88 pages
Regimes of regulation
