SARAH CUNNINGHAM-BURLEY is Reader in the Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Research on Families and Relationships. She has published widely in social science and medical journals, and is co-editor (with Neil McKeganey) of Readings in Medical Sociology and Enter the Sociologist. - KATHRYN BACKETT-MILBURN is Senior Research Fellow at the Research Unit in Health and Behavioural Change, University of Edinburgh. Her publications include Constructing Gendered Bodies(co-editor with Linda McKie). She has published research papers on child risk and safety, women's health at mid-life, and combining work and parenting. She is Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.

• Introduction PART I: THEORIZING EMBODIED PRACTICE: METAPHOR AND METHODS The Storyteller's Paradox: Homeopathy in the Borderlands; A.Scott Bodies, Battlefields and Biographies: Scars and the Construction of the Body as Heritage; K.A.Burnett & M.Holmes Dissonant Choreographies: Performativity and Method in Social-cultural Research; J.van Loon & B.H.Rockwell ; Refusing to Fight: A Playful Approach to Chronic Disease; G.Pillsbury PART II: NEGLECTED BODIES AND EVERYDAY LIFE Disability Studies and Phenomenology: Finding a Space for both the Carnal and the Political; K.Paterson The Body and Death; C.Seale The (Im)possibilities of Living as People with AIDS: Incorporating Death into Everyday Life; B.Heaphy 'Dormant Issues? Towards a Sociology of Sleep'; S.J.Williams PART III: EXPLORING BODIES, SPACE AND LEISURE Techniques of Neutralization, Techniques of Body Management and the Public Harassment of Runners; G.Smith Stop Making Sense? The Problem of the Body in Youth/Sub/Counter-Culture; P.Sweetman 'All We Needed To Do was Blow the Whistle': Children's Embodiment of Time; P.Christensen, A.James & C.Jenks Dreams of Disembodiment: The Secret History of the Remote Control; M.Michael Index