Social and Cultural Lives of Immune SystemsJames M. Wilce Jr. Routledge, 2 вер. 2003 р. - 328 стор. Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems introduces a provocative new hypothesis in medico-social theory - the theory that immunity and disease are in part socially constituted. It argues that immune systems function not just as biological entities but also as symbolic concepts charged with political significance. Bridging elements of psychology, sociology, body theory, immunology and medical anthropology, twelve papers from leading scholars explain some of the health-hazards of emotional and social pressure, whilst analysing the semiotic and social responses to the imagery of immunity. |
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Relating to our worlds in a psychobiological context The impact of disclosure on selfgeneration and immunity | 36 |
Metaphors our bodyminds live by | 50 |
Immune to emotion The relative absence of emotion in PNI and its centrality to everything else | 82 |
PNI in the wild Anthropological fieldwork using endocrine and immune variables | 103 |
Childhood stress Endocrine and immune responses to psychosocial events | 105 |
Civilization and its stressed discontents From individual stress to crossnational comparisons | 189 |
The enigma of hypertension and psychosomatic illness Lessons for psychoneuroimmunology from beyond the conscious mind | 191 |
Cultural variations in the placebo effect Ulcers anxiety and blood pressure | 206 |
Corporeal flows The immune system global economies of food and new implications for health | 232 |
Critical retrospectives | 267 |
Stressful encounters of an immunological kind The social dimensions of psychoneuroimmunology | 269 |
Reflections on embodiment | 282 |
Index | 303 |
Cultural congruity and the cortisol stress response among Dominican men | 147 |
Life event stress and immune function in Samoan adolescents Toward a crosscultural psychoneuroimmunology | 170 |
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