Embodiment: Clinical, Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Illness
Sep 2004 · McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Ebook
224
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About this ebook
This is the first book to explore the idea of embodiment across a wide range of clinical contexts. Adopting a critical and cultural perspective, the book stresses the importance of understanding people through their lived experiences and constructions of their own body.The book:
- Challenges both the mind-body dichotomy and the biopsychosocial model
- Examines the clinical significance of people's experience of ‘being a body’ through a broad range of health and illness experiences, in particular when the body is distressed, diseased, disordered, disabled or dismembered
- Provides insight into the physical and emotional experiences of individuals through its empathetic style
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