Exploring the Body

This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. It draws together a range of empirical work on different themes, each taking the body and its study as its central problematic. It creatively combines contributions on disability, illness, scars, sleep, complementary medicine, running, as well as the lifecourse themes of childhood, youth and death. The different approaches to researching the body examined through these contributions include autobiography, case-studies, interviews and participant observation.

Author Biography

SARAH CUNNINGHAM-BURLEY is Reader in the Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Research on Families and Relationships. She has published widely in social science and medical journals, and is co-editor (with Neil McKeganey) of Readings in Medical Sociology and Enter the Sociologist. – KATHRYN BACKETT-MILBURN is Senior Research Fellow at the Research Unit in Health and Behavioural Change, University of Edinburgh. Her publications include Constructing Gendered Bodies(co-editor with Linda McKie). She has published research papers on child risk and safety, women’s health at mid-life, and combining work and parenting. She is Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.