Introduction: "An excursion"
Bodies as equipment for moving (from artist to audience)
Burke on drugs : efficiency and the valuation of habits
From the rhetoric of science to the science of rhetoric : the case of endocrinology
Seeing "deviance" as inclination : Kretschmerian constitutions and bodily occupations
Body language : Paget and gesture-speech theory
Welcome to the beauty clinic
Conclusion: Action in motion.