In Suffering Iain Wilkinson provides a compelling sociological exploration of human
suffering, and its political and moral repercussions. Sociology is always concerned with the …

This has been a difficult book to write. Part of this, no doubt, stems from my own limitations or
inadequacies. It's also, I believe, inherent in the very nature of the topic in question and the …

The sociology of emotion is a new, growing field within the larger discipline of sociology, 1
and part of a wider interdisciplinary renaissance in interest in emotion. All of the nineteenth …

Consider the following two pieces of information about prostate cancer. First, a brief life
history. Fraser was born in 1921 on a croft in Sutherland, in the far north of Scotland. A local …

In this article I discuss some of the findings of an on-going ethnographic study of two once-
weekly circuit training classes held in one of the growing number of private health and …

We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our day-to-day life? How we experience
our bodies is at once both intensely personal and extremely public. This book sets out to …

Social scientists of medicine have largely, although by no means exclusively, focused their
research on illness and sickness thus obscuring social scientific investigations of positive …

In this paper I consider 30 Finnish women's written narratives about the process of getting
back pain diagnosed. From the beginning of the early discomfort of back pain, the women …

While the vicissitudes of mind and body can be traced back to antiquity, a basic
dualisticimageryhas nonetheless remainedfairly constant within Western thought. Within this …

The third edition of this popular and established core textbook provides an invaluable guide
to 24 of the most influential thinkers in Sociology. Written by leading academics in the field …