Regulating Bodies

Bryan Turner is Professor of Sociology at Essex University.

Introduction; Part 1 Discovering bodies; Chapter 1 The body question; Chapter 2 The absent body in structuration theory; Chapter 3 Reflections on the epistemology of the hand; Part 2 Medical sociology; Chapter 4 The interdisciplinary curriculum; Chapter 5 The body and medical sociology; Part 3 Regimes of regulation; Chapter 6 The government of the body; Chapter 7 The anatomy lesson; Chapter 8 The talking disease; Conclusion;