Monica Greco Livres

The book applies Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods to explore the relationship between illness and modernity. Monica Greco examines the contributions of various disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, and psychology, to the concept of 'psychosomatics.' She analyzes how understanding psychosomatic illness can reshape our perceptions of illness, subjectivity, and the ethical and political dimensions of health. This work invites readers to reconsider the implications of illness in contemporary society.

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 of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as: the body and social (dis)order bodies and identities bodily norms bodies in health and dis-ease bodies and technologies. Containing an extensive critical introduction, contributions from key figures such as Butler, Sedgwick, Martin Scheper-Huges, Haraway and Gilroy, and a series of introductions summarizing each section, this Reader offers students a valuable practical guide and a thorough grounding in the fascinating topic of the body.