Understanding the body from a social and cultural perspective
Introduction: theorizing the body
The scientific and biomedical body
Healthy and diseased bodies
Aging bodies
Reproducing bodies
Dead bodies
Mapping difference onto bodies
Racialized and colonized bodies
Gendered bodies
Sexualized bodies
Classed bodies
Bodies and privilege
Beautiful bodies
Fat and thin bodies
Extraordinary bodies
Modified bodies
Religious bodies
State and corporate regulation of the body
Tortured, punished and convict bodies
Commodified bodies
Animal bodies
Bodies of the future
Conclusion: bodies of the future
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