Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems

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James MacLynn Wilce
Psychology Press, 2003 - 318 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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Introduction Social and cultural lives of immune systems in a semiotic universe
Theoretical perspectives
15
Telling stories The health benefits of disclosure
17
Relating to our worlds in a psychobiological context The impact of disclosure on selfgeneration and immunity
34
Metaphors our bodyminds live by
48
Immune to emotion The relative absence of emotion in PNI and its centrality to everything else
80
PNI in the wild Anthropological fieldwork using endocrine and immune variables
101
Childhood stress Endocrine and immune responses to psychosocial events
103
Civilization and its stressed discontents From individual stress to crossnational comparisons
187
The enigma of hypertension and psychosomatic illness Lessons for psychoneuroimmunology from beyond the conscious mind
189
Cultural variations in the placebo effect Ulcers anxiety and blood pressure
204
Corporeal flows The immune system global economies of food and new implications for health
230
Critical retrospectives
265
Stressful encounters of an immunological kind The social dimensions of psychoneuroimmunology
267
Reflections on embodiment
280
Index
301

Cultural congruity and the cortisol stress response among Dominican men
145
Life event stress and immune function in Samoan adolescents Toward a crosscultural psychoneuroimmunology
168

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