Representing the Un/healthy Body

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 301-321

  Craddock, Susan ^a   Brown, Tim ^b  

^a Department of Geography   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"sick" bodies studying social parameters of normativity and enforcing mechanisms; Case of representations of AIDS; Dominant cultural norms associated with "epistemic configuration"; Media images of SARS, AIDS, and avian flu critical role of bodies in understanding disease; Physically fit, slender muscular male body "imperative to hegemonic masculinity"; Problematizing the slender female body; Representing health from "fitness" to "fatness"; Representing the healthy unhealthy body; Sick natives and contagious places; Space and place in representations of deviance and interpretations of disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950330681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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