Language, Body, and Health
This edited book addresses ways in which ''bodies'' conceived broadly – get languaged, and ways in which ideas of ''normalcy'' and ''normal'' bodies are held in place and reproduced. The articles show how it is through this medium that people with ailments or ''unusual'' bodies get positioned and slotted in certain ways. The present volume represents a departure from other works in at least two w...
This edited book addresses ways in which ''bodies'' conceived broadly – get languaged, and ways in which ideas of ''normalcy'' and ''normal'' bodies are held in place and reproduced. The articles show how it is through this medium that people with ailments or ''unusual'' bodies get positioned and slotted in certain ways. The present volume represents a departure from other works in at least two w...