'4O '00 C C L (D .|_: .|_: (U Q ... childhood neglect and abuse in deprived family settings have been associated with a range of poor health outcomes, both physical (Leserman et al., 1996) and mental (Bifulco and Moran, 1998).
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... and a failure to recognise that identity may be tied to an embodied habitus (Shilling and Mellor 19961. lndeed, the body as a practical accomplishment, constituted through ongoing choices, may be made unreflexively through habit.
Drawing on international literature and examples, this new edition of Key Concepts in Medical Sociology: · Systematically explains the concepts that have preoccupied medical sociology from its inception, and which have shaped the field as ...
This research on obesity and the media coalesces around three central themes, framing and constructing obesity as a social problem, the media and obesity policy, and media and the science of obesity. Although many studies speak to more ...