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Embodied experience of pregnancy (provisional title) Introduction: A brief introduction to the topic of embodied experience of pregnancy and the construction of the pregnant body.   Theoretical framework: Discuss the dramaturgical body framework, which sees the body as a performance and emphasises the actions involved in experiencing the body. The role of social interactions in […]

This blog is to discuss the embodiment of the individual with cyborg / prosthetic bodies. Firstly what the social model mainly focus on, secondly the enhancement of cyborg legs. Thirdly, the uncanny valley theory on cyborg bodies. The social model of disability focuses on society’s barriers and limiting opportunities and advocates for the full participation […]

Blog2 This blog is to briefly introduce the biomedicalization theory and a case study to apply the theory. Medicalization is well established biomedicine in US after WWII, (Starr 1982), it was regarded as the first social transformation of American medicine. Biomedicalization theory was constituted by Clark and colleagues (2012), argued that it is the second […]

In my study group, there is a girl, who has a part time job as a model. She is paid to take the body image with agreed clothing on without her face be seen. She needs to maintain her appearance as ideal to suit Asian’s culturally valued ‘beautiful’ or ‘desirable’. The ratio of bust/waist/hip is […]

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