Body work is a central activity in the practice of many workers field health and social care. This article provides an introduction to concept body work--paid on bodies others--and demonstrates its importance for understanding activities care workers. Providing overview existing research work, it shows manifold ways which this can inform sociology illness--whether through micro-social focus inter-corporeal aspects care, or elucidating our times spaces highlighting relationship between...

The paper argues for the importance of recognising carework as a form bodywork. It discusses why this central dimension has been neglected in accounts carework, pointing to ways which community care traditionally analysed, resistance social gerontology an overly bodily emphasis, and conceptual dominance debate on care. Drawing study provision help with bathing washing older people at home, it explores body activity, looking how careworkers negotiate nakedness touch, manage dirt disgust,...

Carers occupy an ambiguous position within the social care system. Services are predominantly structured around dependent rather than carer, and this has important consequences for their delivery evaluation. Many of problems that arise in thinking about carer issues relate to confusion over way relationship between agencies informal carers should be perceived. The paper outlines three models provide frames reference relationship: as resources; co-workers; co-clients. tensions these then used...

Abstract Sociologists of health and illness have tended to overlook the architecture buildings used in care. This contrasts with medical geographers who yielded a body work on significance places spaces experience illness. A review sociological studies role built environment performance practice uncovers an important vein work, worthy further study. Through historically situated example hospital architecture, this article seeks tease out substantive methodological issues that can inform...

I: Introduction II: Clothing, Fashion and the Body III: Ageing, Embodiment Culture IV: The Voices of Older Women V:Dress Narration Life VI: Magazines, Media Mrs Exeter VII: High Street Responds: Designing for Market IX: Conclusion References

L'A. limite son etude au cas de la Grande-Bretagne, en organisant sa reflexion autour des themes suivants: 1le symbolisme lie a nature et preparation aliments, existe fois dans les societes avancees primitives. 2Dans deux cas, cuisine est un fait culturel, dont signification symbolique apparait situations sociales qu'elle exprime. 3A plus haut degre il y liaison entre preferences culinaires l'ethique individuelle.

The article explores the significance of dress in embodied experience dementia, exploring questions identity, memory and relationship. It suggests that clothing are important analysis day-to-day experiences people with giving access to dimensions selfhood often ignored over-cognitive accounts being. As a result can be significant provision person-centred dementia care. These arguments explored through ideas materialisation memories, maintenance, or otherwise, appearance forms part background...

Domiciliary care takes place in a special social space: that of the home. Focusing on provision bathing community, article explores spatial ordering at home, unpacking series interlocking contrasts between public and private, their consequences for power dynamics care. These are explored terms ideology home; privacy within treatment thebody. Carework trespasses re‐orders these divisions. The also contrasting site day centre. Baths centres private acts places, reversing symbolism they reveal...

ABSTRACT In this article, we use clothes as a tool for exploring the life stories and narratives of people with dementia, eliciting memories through sensory material dimensions dress. The article draws on an Economic Social Research Council-funded study, ‘Dementia Dress’, which explored everyday experiences clothing carers, care workers using qualitative ethnographic methods including: ‘wardrobe interviews’, observations, visual approaches. our analysis, three dress device dementia: kept ,...

ABSTRACT This article comprises a sociological analysis of how architects imagine the ageing body when designing residential care homes for later life and extent to which they engage empathetically with users. Drawing on interviews architectural professionals based in United Kingdom, we offer insight into ways envisage bodies those who anticipate will populate their buildings. Deploying notions ‘body work’ ‘the multiple’, our reveals imagined variety nuanced ways. These emerge as talked...

Assistance with bathing at home for older and disabled people has long been an area of service tension ambiguity. Lying across the principal faultline community care, that medical/social divide, it is heart current debates over welfare provision. But exploring meaning 'social bath', as termed in field, also challenges some traditional ways which care described analysed particularly within discipline social policy. Bathing involves negotiation intimacy management body, such entails aspects...