Book dossier

Bodies at risk

by Elizabeth E. Wheatley

"Elizabeth Wheatley provides an ethnography of heart disease. She looks at what happens to someone after they have had a heart attack and how they get on with 'business as usual' in the aftermath of a medical crisis that could easily have ended in death. This is a timely book in the light of heart disease being one of the major causes of death in the western world. It is inspired by and contributes to sociological writing on the body, risk, experiences of illness and medicalization and will appeal to academics and students in these areas as well as cultural studies, health-related consumption, health promotion and qualitative health research."--Jacket.