Routledge handbook of body studies / edited by Bryan S. Turner.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

xvi, 421 pages ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Body, Self and Society: 1. Simone de Beauvoir and Binaries of the Body -- 2. Pragmatism"s Embodied Philosophy: From Immediate Experience -- 3. Norbert Elias and the Body -- 4. Embodied Practice: Martin Heidegger, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault -- 5. My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interactionism, Autoethnography and Embodiment -- 6. Feminist Theory: Bodies, Science and Technology -- 7. Foucault's Body.

What is a Body?: 8. Layers or Versions? Human Bodies and the Love of Bitterness -- 9. Phenomenology and the body -- 10. Social Constructionism and the Body -- 11. From Embodied Regulations to Hybrid Ontologies: Questioning Archaeological Bodies -- 12. Social Brains, Embodiment and Neuro-Interactionism.

Religion and the Body: 13. Relics of Faith: Fleshly Desires, Ascetic Disciplines and Devotional Affect in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement -- 14. The Body and the Veil -- 15. Recomposing Decimated Bodies.

Medical Regimes and the Body: 16. Death Signals Life: A Semiotics of the Corpse -- 17. Beyond the Anorexic Paradigm: Re-Thinking 'Eating' Disorders -- 18. Disability, Impairment and the Body -- 19. The Body, Social Inequality and Health -- 20. Health and the Embodiment of the Life Course.

Gender, Sexualities and Race: 21. Chinese Male Bodies: A Transnational Study of Masculinity and Sexuality -- 22. Male Bodies, Masculine Bodies, Men's Bodies: The Need for a Concept of Gex -- 23. Racialized Bodies.

Technologies and Body Modification: 24. Getting Work Done: Cosmetic Surgery as Constraint, as Commodity, as Commonplace -- 25. Modified Bodies: Texts, Projects and Process -- 26. Questions of Life and Death: A Genealogy -- 27. Rejecting the Aging Body -- 28. Conclusion: The Varieties of My Body: Pain, Ethics and Illusio.