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Exploring the Body

S Cunningham-Burley editor K Backett-Milburn editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '01

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This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. The different approaches to researching the body examined through these contributions include autobiography, case-studies, interviews and participant observation.This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. It draws together a range of empirical work on different themes, each taking the body and its study as its central problematic. It creatively combines contributions on disability, illness, scars, sleep, complementary medicine, running, as well as the lifecourse themes of childhood, youth and death. The different approaches to researching the body examined through these contributions include autobiography, case-studies, interviews and participant observation.

ISBN: 9781349416943

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

246 pages

1st ed. 2001