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Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	In the Flesh The Cultural Politics of Body Modification Victoria Pitts Palgrave Macmillan A captivating and comprehensive exploration of body art.

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Leprosy in Colonial South India Medicine and Confinement Jane Buckingham Palgrave Macmillan Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of a disease, it is also a history of colonial power in 19th-century British India as seen through the...

Hardcover : $127.95 Buy	Comparative Housing Policy Government and Housing in Advanced Industrialized Countries John Dolling Palgrave Macmillan This text introduces the reader to the comparative study of housing policy. It looks first at the benefits, limitations and difficulties of the comparative...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Anatomising Embodiment and Organization Theory Karen Dale Palgrave Macmillan Anatomising Embodiment and Organisation Theory explores the relationship between the human body and the development of social theory about organizations and...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	When IVF Fails Feminism, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality Karen Throsby Palgrave Macmillan This book is a discourse analysis of a series of interviews with women and couples who have had IVF unsuccessfully and who have subsequently stopped treatment....

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	Menstruation A Cultural History Edited by Andrew Shail and Gillian Howie Palgrave Macmillan Ranging from Aristotle to twentieth-century gynecology, contributions to this volume trace the semiotics of menstruation from magical act to evolutionary...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Breast Cancer and the Post-Surgical Body Recovering the Self Samantha Crompvoets Palgrave Macmillan Concerned with the lived experience of the mastectomized body, bringing a sensitivity to the micro-politics of breast cancer organizations and the political...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge Sahra Gibbon Palgrave Macmillan Risk assessment and genetic testing for breast cancer are at the vanguard of a rapidly expanding field of medicine, while the molecular genetics of breast...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Embodying Health Identities Allison James and Jenny Hockey Palgrave Macmillan Drawing on a range of recent literature in the field, this innovative book brings together and develops a range of sociological, anthropological and health...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Sociologies of Disability and Illness Contested Ideas in Disability Studies and Medical Sociology Carol Thomas Palgrave Macmillan Cutting across a disciplinary divide, Sociologies of Disability critically reviews and compares the conflicting perspectives on disability and chronic illness...

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	Public Emotions Edited by Perri 6, Susannah Radstone, Corinne Squire and Amal Treacher Palgrave Macmillan Emotions are central to our practices and understanding of public life. This book examines the political, social and personal consequences of public emotions...

Trade Paperback : $43.00 Buy	Health, Technology and Society A Sociological Critique Andrew Webster Palgrave Macmillan The impact of technology on health service is an issue of global concern, and this pertinent text provides a fascinating account of current health care...

Hardcover : $79.00 Buy	Object Matters Condoms, Adolescence and Time Nicole Vitellone Manchester University Press Presents a history of the condom in the mass media, including the 1986 Australian "Grim Reaper" AIDS television campaign.

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions Assaults on the Lifeworld Edited by Graham Scambler and Sasha Scambler Palgrave Macmillan This book charts the new directions in theory and research in disability studies, giving purpose and shape to the emerging confluence of ideas between...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles Consumption and Public Life Stephen Kline Palgrave Macmillan This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the globesity pandemic in Britain...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	HIV Treatment and Prevention Technologies in International Perspective Edited by Corinne Squire and Mark Davis Palgrave Macmillan This book addresses the governance of the HIV and AIDS pandemic, with reference to the social aspects of technology and the technological mediation of the...

Trade Paperback : $26.95 Buy	The Energy Glut Climate Change and the Politics of Fatness Ian Roberts with Phil Edwards Zed Books World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially obese. The Energy Glut expertly tells the story of energy in society, and...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	The Matter of Death Space, Place and Materiality Edited by Jenny Hockey, Kate Woodthorpe, and Carol Komaromy Palgrave Macmillan This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Body Piercing and Identity Construction A Comparative Perspective - New York, New Orleans, Wroclaw Lisiunia A. Romanienko Palgrave Macmillan A theoretical exploration of piercing and other forms of body modification that urban communities of defiance use to express their identity, this analysis...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Debating Obesity Critical Perspectives Edited by Emma Rich, Lee F. Monaghan, Lee Monaghan, and Lucy Aphramor Palgrave Macmillan This book brings together critical perspectives on some of the recent claims associated with the obesity crisis. It develops both theoretical and conceptual...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	The Politics of Sleep Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age Simon J. Williams Palgrave Macmillan Why has sleep become increasingly politicized in contemporary society? This book provides an account of the politics of sleep in the late modern age. The...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice Holly Thorpe Palgrave Macmillan This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Social Economies of Fear and Desire Emotional Regulation, Emotion Management, and Embodied Autonomy Valérie de Courville Nicol Palgrave Macmillan Social Economies of Fear and Desire contributes to the study of emotional life as bound to social life. It shows that emotional experience is structured by...

Trade Paperback : $45.00 Buy	Biology for Health Applying the Activities of Daily Living S. H. Cedar Palgrave Macmillan This important new introductory book emphasises the link between biology and health by taking the Activities of Daily Living model as an organising framework....

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