Of Bodies and symptoms. Anthropological perspectives on their social and medical treatment

Sylvie Fainzang & Claudie Haxaire eds. Tarragona: URV Publicacions, 2011. The question of the social treatment of the body and its transformations emerges in relation to issues of varying types (economic, therapeutic, ideological, cultural, aesthetic,commercial, technical). This book examines the various ways of managing bodily symptoms or transformations and the social stakes and systems of knowledge which relate to them, both on the medical and social level. The contributions provide analys..