Body Work In Health And Social Care - Critical Themes, New Agendas

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.

• Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social care
• Contributions come from an international range of experts
• Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fields
• Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic studies and first person accounts

Julia Twigg is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at University of Kent and a specialist in old age, care and embodiment. Her books include The Body in Health and Social Care (2006).

Carol Wolkowitz is Reader in Sociology at University of Warwick and has written widely on gender and the sociology of work and employment. Her books include Bodies at Work (2006).

Rachel Lara Cohen is Lecturer at the University of Surrey, and a specialist in sociology of work and employment. Her books include Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender (with C Hughes, 2011).

Sarah Nettleton is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of York and has researched and published on a range of health-related topics, all with a focus on the sociology of the body and embodiment. Her books include Sociology of Health and Illness (2006).

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

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

3. Managing the body work of home care (Kim England and Isabel Dyck).

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

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

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

7. Treating women's sexual difficulties: the body work of sexual therapy (Thea Cacchioni and Carol Wolkowitz).

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

9. Body work in respiratory physiological examinations (Per Måseide).

10. In a moment of mismatch: overseas doctors' adjustments in new hospital environments (Anna Harris).

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

12. Afterword: Body work and the sociological tradition (Chris Shilling).

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