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  • Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk

    by Lee Monaghan ...
    Current popular interest in bodies, fitness, sport and active lifestyles, has made bodybuilding more visible and acceptable within mainstream society than ever before. However, the association between bodybuilding, drugs and risk has contributed to a negative image of an activity which many people find puzzling. Using data obtained from participant observation and interviews, this book explores ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Key Concepts in Medical Sociology

    Edited by Lee F. Monaghan, Jonathan Gabe ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    How do we understand health in relation to society? What role do social processes, structures and culture play in shaping our experiences of health and illness? How do we understand medicine and healthcare within a sociological framework?Drawing on international literature and examples, this new edition of Key Concepts in Medical Sociology:· Systematically explains the concepts that have ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Rethinking Obesity

    Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times

    by Lee F. Monaghan, Emma Rich, Andrea E. Bombak ...
    Series series Critical Approaches to Health
    Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, Rethinking Obesity invites readers to reconsider the medical and public health framing of population weight (gain) as a massive global problem, epidemic or crisis. Attentive to social values, scientific uncertainty and possible harms, the book furthers critique of the weight-centred health paradigm and world war on obesity. Building upon existing ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Men and the War on Obesity

    A Sociological Study

    by Lee F. Monaghan ...
    Is obesity really a public health problem and what does the construction of obesity as a health problem mean for men?According to official statistics, the majority of men in nations such as England and the USA are overweight or obese. Public health officials, researchers, governments and various agencies are alarmed and have issued dire warnings about a global ‘obesity epidemic’. This perceived ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Challenging Myths of Masculinity

    Understanding Physical Cultures

    by Lee F. Monaghan, Michael Atkinson ...
    Series series Interactionist Currents
    Many myths surround male bodies and associated bodywork, especially when such bodywork is labelled culturally or socially atypical or 'problematic'. Bodybuilding, for example, has been explained in terms of gender inadequacy and an 'Adonis complex' akin to reverse anorexia, while men electing to undergo aesthetic cosmetic surgery are deemed 'too concerned' about their appearance and thus woman ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics

    Research, Critique and Interventions

    Edited by Lee Monaghan, Rachel Colls, Bethan Evans ...
    There is considerable rhetoric and concern about weight and obesity across an increasing range of national contexts. Alarmist claims about an ‘obesity time-bomb’ are continually recycled in policy reports, reviews and white papers, each of which begin with the assumption that fatness is fundamentally unhealthy and damaging to national economies. With contributions from the UK, Canada, the USA and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Interpreting the Body

    Between Meaning and Matter

    by Ben Spatz, Kathryn Linn Geurts, Sefakore Komabu-Pomeyie, Sweta Rajan-Rankin, Mrinalini Greedharry, Lee F. Monaghan, Piper Sledge, Erin F. Johnston, Brittney Miles, Chandra Russo, Annemarie Jutel ...
    Series series Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
    Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society.Interpreting body and embodiment in social movements, health and medicine, race, sex and gender, globalization, colonialism, education, and other contexts, ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Arizen Treasure

    Book 1

    by Chantai Finesse, Euan Monaghan ...
    Are you tired of watching everyone else living their best life while you sit on the sidelines stuck in the same old with no way out?I’ve been there!Through instability, tumultuous relationships, questioning my significance, my worth and my purpose, I finally discovered that each circumstance faced, was creating a path to get to where I am now.Growth is a journey set in stages. Arizen Treasure is m ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Chris Shilling ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
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  • Foucault, Health and Medicine

    Edited by Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and ... Read more

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  • Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health

    by Talia Welsh ...
    This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior, arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals for their health is politically and economically motivated and has reinforced growing health disparities between the wealthy and poor under the guise of individual responsibility.We are awash in concerns about the state of our health and recommendations about how to improve it ... Read more

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  • The Body in Culture, Technology and Society

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