- Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social care
- Contributions come from an international range of experts
- Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fields
- Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic studies and first person accounts
1 Conceptualising body work in health and social care 1
Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen and Sarah Nettleton
2 Time, space and touch at work: body work and labour process (re)organisation 19
Rachel Lara Cohen
3 Managing the body work of home care 36
Kim England and Isabel Dyck
4 The means of correct training: embodied regulation in training for body work among mothers 50
Emma Wainwright, Elodie Marandet and Sadaf Rizvi
5 From body-talk to body-stories: body work in complementary and alternative medicine 67
Nicola Kay Gale
6 Educating with the hands: working on the body⁄self in Alexander Technique 81
Jennifer Tarr
7 Treating women’s sexual diffi culties: the body work of sexual therapy 94
Thea Cacchioni and Carol Wolkowitz
8 Actions speak louder than words: the embodiment of trust by healthcare professionals in gynae-oncology 108
Patrick R. Brown, Andy Alaszewski, Trish Swift and Andy Nordin
9 Body work in respiratory physiological examinations 123
Per Måseide
10 In a moment of mismatch: overseas doctors’ adjustments in new hospital environments 134
Anna Harris
11 The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers’ contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK 147
Parvati Raghuram, Joanna Bornat and Leroi Henry
12 Afterword: Body work and the sociological tradition 162
Chris Shilling
Index 167
Rachel Lara Cohen University of Surrey, UK.
Sarah Nettleton University of York, UK.
Julia Twigg University of Kent, UK.
