Material Discourses of Health and Illness (Hardcover)

List of Contributors. Preface and Acknowledgements. Introducing material discursive approaches to health. Introducing discursive methods. What role does the body have in illness? Interpretative phenomenological analysis and the psychology of health and illness. Social anf material ecologies for hearing impairment. Disorientation in the (post) modern world. The relationship between representational and materialist perspectives: AIDS and 'the other' Discourses and sexual health: providing for young people. Discourses of pregnancy and childbirth. Diet as a vehicle for self control. Speaking the docorated body.