ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book highlights the therapeutic value of touch. It demonstrates comparable approaches especially Hannah Macpherson and Pau Obrador, where the research builds upon empirics felt by the researchers' own bodies. The book talks about Bernard Andrieu, Anne-Flore Lalo and Alexandre Klein examine touch in the context of medical models of the body and health spaces, deploying a range of conceptual cases studies to shed light on what they see as new kinds of bio-subjective care'. It focuses on touch in therapeutic spaces and practices by Jennifer Lea and Amanda Bingley but concentrates on the relation between medical models of the body and strategies of healthcare. The book highlights the varying degrees how attention to touch grants scholars some form of access to a subjectively-constituted interior experience and understanding not always discernible through behavioral observations.
