Download or read book Bodies at Risk written by Elizabeth E. Wheatley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bodies at Risk, Elizabeth Wheatley provides a fascinating ethnography of heart disease. As heart disease is one of the major causes of death in the western world, this book is both timely and important. 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 in cultural studies, health-related consumption, health promotion and qualitative health research.