Language: Anglès

Licence document URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Document type: Llibres electrònics info:eu-repo/semantics/book
 

Author: Diversos Autors; Sylvie Fainzang, Claudie Haxaire

Document URL: http://llibres.urv.cat/index.php/purv/catalog/book/36

Published by (editorial): Publicacions de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Repository ingest date: 2016-03-31

Document name: Of Bodies and Symptoms

Abstract: The question of the social treatment of the body and its transformations emerges in relation to issues of varying types (economic, therapeutic, ideological, cultural, aesthetic,commercial, technical). This book examines the various ways of managing bodily symptoms or transformations and the social stakes and systems of knowledge which relate to them, both on the medical and social level. The contributions provide analyses that concern a broad range of countries. Through the themes it tackles and the subjects it examines, this book reveals both the universal nature of the questions it asks, and the evolution of the objects and approaches of anthropology itself.

ISBN: 978-84-694-4991-2

Book publication year: 2011