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The body in social policy
— mapping a territory | | Author(s) | Julia Twigg |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Policy, vol 31, no 3, July 2002 |
| Pages | pp 421-440 |
| Keywords | Biological ageing ; Self care capacity ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The relevance of recent theorising around the body for the discipline of social policy is explored in this paper. It aims to show how such work opens up new ways of thinking within the care areas of social policy as well as proposing new subjects for social policy consideration. It argues that the common image of the body as an absent presence that has been characteristic of sociological accounts in the recent past still applies in relation to social policy, but that considerable gains can be made from incorporating this new theorising and new subject matter into the scope of the subject. It explores this by means of following areas of relevance: health care, community care, disability, no-power consumption, as well as cross-cutting themes of age, 'race', gender, sexuality. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020814212 A |
| Classmark | BH: CA: TM2 |
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