Bodies at risk
Subtitle: an ethnography of heart disease
By: by Elizabeth E. Wheatley.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Heart -- Diseases -- Social aspects.; Heart -- Diseases -- Psychological aspects.
Description: "Elizabeth Wheatley provides an ethnography of heart disease. She looks at what happens to someone after they have had a heart attack and how they get on with 'business as usual' in the aftermath of a medical crisis that could easily have ended in death. This is a timely book in the light of heart disease being one of the major causes of death in the western world. 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 cultural studies, health-related consumption, health promotion and qualitative health research."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Suspicious bodies, troubled minds:; title: Emotionality, corporeality, and reflexivity; title: In cardiac reskilling; title: Negotiating acceptable risk:; title: Collaboration, compromise and contestation; title: In cardiac reskilling; title: Disciplining bodies at risk:; title: Cardiac rehabilitation and the medicalization of fitness; title: Reskilling with style:; title: Doubting and trusting in cardiac expertise; title: Reflexive reskilling in a risk culture.