Cregan-Prelims.qxd 3/15/2006 12:53 PM Page i The Sociology of the Body Cregan-Prelims.qxd 3/15/2006 12:53 PM Page ii Cregan-Prelims.qxd 3/15/2006 12:53 PM Page iii The Sociology of the Body Mapping the Abstraction of Embodiment Kate Cregan SAGE Publications London ● Thousand Oaks● New Delhi Cregan-Prelims.qxd 3/15/2006 12:53 PM Page iv © Kate Cregan 2006 First published 2006 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver’s Yard 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP SAGE Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd B-42, Panchsheel Enclave Post Box 4109 New Delhi 110 017 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-10 0 7619 4023 5 ISBN-13 978 0 7619 4023 4 ISBN-10 0 7619 4024 3 (pbk) ISBN-13 978 0 7619 4024 1 Library of Congress control number 2005928001 Typeset by C&M Digitals (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed on paper from sustainable resources Printed and bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead Cregan-Prelims.qxd 3/15/2006 12:53 PM Page v For friendship Cregan-Prelims.qxd 3/15/2006 12:53 PM Page vi Cregan-Prelims.qxd 3/15/2006 12:53 PM Page vii Contents Author Details ix Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 Part I Object – the Regulated Body 17 One ‘Manners Maketh the Man’: Social Norms and Customary Control 19 Two Regimes and Institutions: Authority and Delimited Control 43 Three Place and Space: Habitus and Social Control 64 Part II Abject – the Bounded Body 91 Four Blood, Bile and Phlegm: Ritual Bodies and Boundaries that Blur 93 Five Mind over Matter: Psychoanalysis and ‘Putting On’ the Body 113 Part III Subject – the Body of Difference 139 Six Technoscience: Remodelling and Redefining Boundaries 141 Cregan-Prelims.qxd 3/15/2006 12:53 PM Page viii CONTENTS Seven The Social Subject: Life-Experiences, Lifestyles and Life-Stages 166 Conclusion 185 References 199 Index 203 viii Cregan-Prelims.qxd 3/15/2006 12:53 PM Page ix Author Details Dr Kate Cregan is an Australian Research Council postdoctoral research fellow in the Globalism Institute, RMIT University. She has also been an Honorary Research Associate of the Department of Politics, Monash University during the writing of this book. She is currently completing a three-year research project on the social impact – from the local to the global – of embryonic stem cell technology at the Globalism Institute. All her research is concerned with social ethics and embodiment, most particularly in relation to the history and philosophy of medicine. Her writing ranges from studies of anatomy and criminality in seventeenth-century London, to the bio-medical trade in human tissues, to the commemoration of non-combatants killed in vio- lent conflict. She is particularly interested in the variation in under- standings of embodiment across time, space and culture.