By John O'Neill
Five Bodies bargains an creation to a couple of the main pressing modern matters in the sociology of the physique.
The e-book was once first released in 1985 within the united states by way of Cornell college Press, and used to be nominated for the loo Porter Award (sponsored by means of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association). A course breaking e-book, it provided a framework for the becoming box of the sociology of the physique and unfolded 'the physique' for sociological learn.
This new version (the earlier version was once released through Cornell college Press (1985) has been considerably revised and up to date to deal with cutting-edge problems with the physique in glossy existence, neighborhood and politics.
John O'Neill examines how embodied selves and relationships are being re-shaped and re-figured and the way the embodied figures of the polity, economic climate and society symbolize the contested notions of id, wish, wholeness and fragmentation. He focuses upon these cultural practices by which we map our macro-micro worlds:
· articulating a cosmology
· a physique politic
· a productivensumptive economy
· a bio-technological frontier of human layout and transplantation
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