By Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Kathryn Backett-Milburn
This e-book explores the varied methods of getting to know and theorizing the physique. It attracts jointly various empirical paintings on diversified subject matters, each one taking the physique and its learn as its important difficult. It creatively combines contributions on incapacity, disorder, scars, sleep, complementary medication, and working, in addition to the lifecourse subject matters of early life, early life and dying. the various methods to achieving the physique tested via those contributions contain autobiography, case stories, interviews, and player statement.
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