Self-injury, medicine and society: authentic bodies
Auteur :
Chandler, Amy
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781137405272
Date de publication :
5 oct. 2016
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book provides an appreciative, sociological engagement with accounts of the embodied practice of self-injury. It shows that in order to understand self-injury, it is necessary to engage with widely circulating narratives about the nature of bodies, including that they are separate from, yet containers of 'emotion'.