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1. Emotions

   A Social Science Reader

   Edited by Monica Greco, Paul Stenner

   Series: Routledge Student Readers

   Are emotions becoming more conspicuous in contemporary life? Are the social sciences undergoing an an 'affective turn'? This Reader gathers influential and contemporary work in the study of emotion and affective life from across the range of the social sciences. Drawing on both theoretical and...

   Published November 30th 2008 by Routledge
2. The Body

   A Reader

   Edited by Mariam Fraser, Monica Greco

   Series: Routledge Student Readers

   The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes...

   Published October 27th 2004 by Routledge
3. Illness as a Work of Thought

   A Foucauldian Perspective on Psychosomatics

   By Monica Greco

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Illness as a Work of Thought is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods of the study of illness and modernity. From medicine and psychiatry to psychology and the social sciences, Monica Greco explores what the history of these different disciplines contributes...

   Published April 1st 1998 by Routledge