Abstract
`The body', long a practical and theoretical focus in disciplines such as anthropology and sociology, has gradually emerged as a problem for psychology. The volumes by Harré, Radley and Ussher exemplify this trend-not only in their rejection of understandings of the body as entirely and implicitly biological, but also in their use of the body as a medium through which human experience may be articulated and socially grounded. This review considers the ways in which each author understands embodiment and suggests that these works are tied together by a desire to bridge individual/biological and social conceptions in such a way that an element of lived experience remains as a focus of their analyses. Nevertheless, tensions within these works as well as variations between them point to the (perhaps inevitable) lack of a consensual way of talking about bodies.
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