The Body in Everyday Life Book

	List of figures
	List of contributors
	Acknowledgements
1	The body in everyday life: an introduction	1
Pt. I	Physical and emotional bodies	25
2	The body as a chemistry experiment: steroid use among South Wales bodybuilders	27
3	Immunology on the street: how nonscientists see the immune system	45
4	'Feeling letdown': an exploration of an embodied sensation associated with breastfeeding	64
5	Going with the flow: some central discourses in conceptualising and articulating the embodiment of emotional states	82
Pt. II	Health and illness	101
6	Malignant bodies: children's beliefs about health, cancer and risk	103
7	Falling out with my shadow: lay perceptions of the body in the context of arthritis	124
8	The body, health and self in the middle years	142
Pt. III	Gender	161
9	Running around like a lunatic: Colin's body and the case of male embodiment	163
10	The body resists: everyday clerking and unmilitary practice	180
11	Natural for women, abnormal for men: beliefs about pain and gender	199
12	Embodied obligation: the female body and health surveillance	218
Pt. IV	Ageing	241
13	The sight of age	243
14	'Growing old gracefully' as opposed to 'mutton dressed as lamb': the social construction of recognising older women	258
15	The male menopause: lay accounts and the cultural reconstruction of midlife	276
	Index	302