Book Details
Orange Code:28071
Paperback:180 pages
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Sections:
1. Conceptualising body work in health and social care2. Time, space and touch at work: body work and labour process3. Managing the body work of home care4. The means of correct training: embodied regulation in training for body5. From body-talk to body-stories: body work in complementary and alternative medicine6. Educating with the hands: working on the body⁄self in Alexander Technique7. Treating women’s sexual diffi culties: the body work of sexual therapy8. Actions speak louder than words: the embodiment of trust by healthcare professionals in gynae-oncology9. Body work in respiratory physiological examinations10. In a moment of mismatch: overseas doctors’ adjustments in new hospital environments11. The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers’ contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK
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The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which bodywork features in health and social care and the meanings of thiswork both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodiesthey work. * Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work,including those outside health and social care * Contributions come from an international range ofexperts * Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic,and care fields * Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from lifehistory analysis to ethnographic studies and first personaccounts
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