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720 1 _aBeljaars, Diana
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245 0 0 _aCompulsive Body Spaces
260 _bTaylor & Francis
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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506 0 _aFree-to-read
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520 _a"Compulsive Body Spaces presents a spatial understanding of compulsion. Providing a compelling account of the lives of 15 people with Tourette syndrome, it demystifies the seemingly irrational, purposeless and meaningless character of this behaviour. It demonstrates how attending to the spatial circumstances under which compulsive acts, like touching, ordering, and aligning objects take place, can produce valuable novel insights that complement neuroscientific, psychiatric or psychological knowledge. By paying attention to the sensory, material, and social environment of the body during its performance of compulsive acts, the book establishes the ways in which configurations of bodies, objects, and spaces disrupt people's lives or allow them to thrive. This collaborative, qualitative study that is based on in-depth interviews, observations, and mobile eye-tracking places the book at the forefront of a new wave of patient emancipation in medical research, and gives rise to a renewed consideration of what empathetic, context-sensitive care may look like in the 21st century. In turn, its insights give rise to a groundbreaking spatial conceptualisation of wellbeing. Considering the compulsive capacities of a broader humanity, Compulsive Body Spaces highlights the compulsive dimension in bodily spatiality, which underpins the very core theories of human life as embodied and performed. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in science and technology studies, human geography, sociology, health and social care, medical humanities, continental philosophy and disability studies.
540 _aAll rights reserved
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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aGeography
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650 7 _aHuman geography
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653 _acompulsive bodies, compulsive geographies, geographies of health, compulsive spaces
720 1 _aBeljaars, Diana
_4oth
793 0 _aDOAB Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/84648
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_zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication
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