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Social Policy and the Body Transitions in Corporeal Discourse Edited by Kathryn Ellis Senior Lecturer in Social Policy University of Luton and Hartley Dean Professor of Social Policy University of Luton Consultant Editor: Jo Campling First published in Great Britain 2000 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-0-333-71385-3 ISBN 978-0-230-37753-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230377530 First published in the United States of America 2000 by ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-22058-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Social policy and the body : transitions in corporeal discourse I edited by Kathryn Ellis and Hartley Dean. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-22058-7 (cloth) 1. Body, Human-Social aspects. 2. Social policy. 3. Welfare state. I. Ellis, Kathryn. II. Dean, Hartley, 1949- HM110.S62 1999 361.6'1-dc21 98-49905 CIP Selection and editorial matter © Kathryn Ellis and Hartley Dean 2000 Introduction and Chapter 5 © Hartley Dean 2000 Chapters 1 and 2 © Kathryn Ellis 2000 Other chapters © Macmillan Press Ltd 2000 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2000 978-0-333-71384-6 No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WIP 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10987654321 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 This page intentionally left blank Dedication The editors wish to dedicate this volume to one of its contributors, Noel Parry, who very sadly died on 14 October 1998. He will be greatly missed, not least by his beloved wife, co-researcher and author, Jose. This page intentionally left blank This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements viii Notes on contributors x Introduction: Towards an Embodied Account of Welfare xi Hartley Dean 1. Welfare and Bodily Order: Theorizing Transitions in Corporeal Discourse 1 Kathryn Ellis 2. The Care of the Body 23 Kathryn Ellis 3. The 'Gift' of Body Organs 45 Gurch Randhawa 4. Bodies and Dualism 63 Alison Assiter 5. Bodily Metaphors and Welfare Regimes 83 Hartley Dean 6. Body-Mind Expertise: Notes on the Polarization of Health Care Discourse 103 John Paley 7. Labouring Bodies: Mothers and Maternity Policy 122 Fiona Brooks and Helen Lomax 8. Disciplinary Interventions and Resistances around 'Safer Sex' 139 Martin Mitchell 9. The Equality of Bodies: Animal Exploitation and Human Welfare 160 Jose Parry and Noel Parry References 180 Author Index 202 Subject Index 208 vii Acknowledgements The editors are indebted to a number of people. When first we con ceived the project to which this book gives expression, we sought the views of the social policy academic community on the Internet, using the Social Policy Association's 'social-policy mailbase', and we are grateful to all those colleagues who responded so supportively: we hope you will not be disappointed by the eventual outcome! Secondly, we are especially grateful to Jo Campling, our consultant editor, for the faith she placed in the book, for her encouragement and helpful advice. Thirdly, we should acknowledge the support and stimulation provided by a number of colleagues at the University of Luton who, though they have not contributed chapters to the book, played an important role in developing our thinking. In particular, Tony Fitzpatrick read and commented constructively on early drafts of certain chapters. Most of all, however, we should like as editors to thank our fellow contributors: the book has been very much a collaborative effort and has involved a considerable amount of valuable discussion and debate between the authors. The end result, we believe, is a collection that is greater than the sum of its individual parts. We are conscious nonetheless that there is a great deal more to be written on the subject of social policy and the body. Working on our own chapters and with the other contributors, we became aware that this book could do little more than scratch the surface of an array of fantastically rich and complex issues. Limitations of space have meant that it has not been possible to accommodate every change that has been suggested to us or to develop every argument in the manner we might ideally have wished. In places, therefore, we decided to retain certain clearly arbitrary and prolegemenary elements in order that they might assist the central purpose of the book, which is to stimulate debate. In so doing, of course, we must ourselves accept responsibility for some of the book's inevitable deficiencies. Post-script* Among the contributors included in this volume is one from the Parrys. It is an unusual piece to find in a collection such as this because it reminds us of the important contribution of humanitarism viii Acknowledgements ix in the social and legal reforms introduced in early-nineteenth-century Britain. This strand has been screened from view with the rise of the humanistic perspective, which gives prominence to humans as the primary concern of welfare policy and legislation. The humanitarian movement, one of the leading intellectuals of which was Jeremy Bentham, sought to diminish or abolish cruelty and foster compassion: its attitude towards the 'suffering' body included the treatment of animals amongst its concerns. In view of his own particular con victions, it is a fitting tribute to Noel Parry - a distinguished socio logist of great originality and imagination - that in his last piece of work, written with his partner, Jose, he should so inimitably challenge the orthodoxy of anthropocentrism in social policy and the 'insuper able line', as Bentham called it, between humans and non-humans. Kathryn Ellis and Hartley Dean, University of Luton Editors' note: To avoid unnecessary duplication we have presented the references as one list at the end of the volume.
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