Body Work in Health and Social Care

The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work. Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social care Contributions come from an international range of experts Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fields Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic studies and first person accounts

The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which bodywork features in health and social care and the meanings of thiswork both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodiesthey work.* Explores the commonalities between different sectors of workincluding those outside health and social care* Contributions come from an international range ofexperts* Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeuticand care fields* Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from lifehistory analysis to ethnographic studies and first personaccounts

Notes on Contributors vii1 Conceptualising body work in health and social care 1Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen and SarahNettleton2 Time, space and touch at work: body work and labour process(re)organisation 19Rachel Lara Cohen3 Managing the body work of home care 36Kim England and Isabel Dyck4 The means of correct training: embodied regulation in trainingfor body work among mothers 50Emma Wainwright, Elodie Marandet and Sadaf Rizvi5 From body-talk to body-stories: body work in complementary andalternative medicine 67Nicola Kay Gale6 Educating with the hands: working on the body/self inAlexander Technique 81Jennifer Tarr7 Treating women's sexual diffi culties: the body work ofsexual therapy 94Thea Cacchioni and Carol Wolkowitz8 Actions speak louder than words: the embodiment of trust byhealthcare professionals in gynae-oncology 108Patrick R. Brown, Andy Alaszewski, Trish Swift and AndyNordin9 Body work in respiratory physiological examinations 123Per Måseide10 In a moment of mismatch: overseas doctors' adjustmentsin new hospital environments 134Anna Harris11 The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrantworkers' contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK147Parvati Raghuram, Joanna Bornat and Leroi Henry12 Afterword: Body work and the sociological tradition 162Chris ShillingIndex 167