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o Key Concepts in Body and Society

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Written to meet the needs oÍ the modern student, this book offers the basic
materials, tools and guidance needed to study and write about the body.

Kate cregan is a senior Lecturer in the Arts Graduate Research school and the
School of Politĺcal and Social lnquiry Monash University, Australia.
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Media and RePresentation Kate Cregan is the author of Sociologĺ
of the
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Embodiment
Medicine ancl Science Body: Mapping the Abstraction of
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(20 6) nnď rh, Theatre of the Body: Staqng
Beath' and Embodying Life in Early
Modification/DYsmorPhias Modem
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The majority of her writing
Nature/Culture London (2009).
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..rd ."r"ä..h is based
Pain
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PerformativitY with particular reference to medical
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tations of the bođy,medical technologies,
PhenomenologY Two
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Power
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of her allied interests are ethics (human,
pedago gies, in Particuiar how becoming
Private anđPublic social and researchJ and writing extensive
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a writer informs the Process
PsychoanalYsls in the humanities and social sci-
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the te aching of ethics
Queer ences. RecentlY, she has co-ordinated
156 years of a medical degree and lectured in sociol-
students acľoss the five
Race/EthnicitY she is co-oĺdinator and senior lec-
159 ogy at Monash UniversitY. CurrentlY,
turer of the in teľdisciplinary Gradua
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Religion
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programme in the Faculty of Arts,
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SexualitY
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