Author: Elizabeth E. Wheatley
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754643074
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In Bodies at Risk, Elizabeth Wheatley provides a fascinating ethnography of heart disease. As heart disease is one of the major causes of death in the western world, this book is both timely and important. It is inspired by, and contributes to, sociological writing on the body, risk, experiences of illness, and medicalization, and will appeal to academics and students in these areas as well as in cultural studies, health-related consumption, health promotion and qualitative health research.