Embodiment: Clinical, Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Illness

by Malcolm MacLachlan

This is the first book to explore the idea of embodiment across a wide range of clinical contexts. Adopting a critical and cultural perspective, the book stresses the importance of understanding people through their lived experiences and constructions of their own body.The book: Challenges both the mind-body dichotomy and the biopsychosocial model Examines the clinical significance of people's experience of 'being a body' through a broad range of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0335209599
• ISBN13: 9780335209590
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"