Kate Cregan is the author of Global Childhoods: Issues and Debates (SAGE, 2014), Key Concepts in Body and Society (SAGE, 2012), "Sociology of the Body: Mapping the Abstraction of Embodiment" (SAGE, 2006) and "The Theatre of the Body: Staging Death and Embodying Life in Early Modern London" (Brepols, 2009). The majority of her writing and research is based around understandings of the embodiment across time, space and culture-with particular reference to medical interpretations of the body, medical technologies and the representation in images of the body. Two of her allied interests are ethics...