Embodiment : clinical, critical, and cultural perspectives on health and illness /

This book is for students of psychology, medicine, nursing and other health sciences. It lucidly illustrates why neither a simplistic mind-body dichotomy, nor the parallelism of the biopsychosocial model, sufficiently captures people's experience of being a body. Such experience is most salient...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacLachlan, Malcolm
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Maidenhead ; New York : Open University Press, 2004.
Colección:Health psychology.
Temas:
Human body > Social aspects.
Mind and body.
Medical anthropology.
Human Body > Case Reports.
Self Concept > Case Reports.
Disease > psychology > Case Reports.
Health > Case Reports.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Human body > Social aspects
Medical anthropology
Mind and body
Lichaam en geest.
Lichamelijkheid.
Case Reports
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book is for students of psychology, medicine, nursing and other health sciences. It lucidly illustrates why neither a simplistic mind-body dichotomy, nor the parallelism of the biopsychosocial model, sufficiently captures people's experience of being a body. Such experience is most salient when the body is in some way distressed, diseased, disordered, disabled or dismembered. Adding to the intriguing sociological and philosophical literature on embodiment, the book illustrates how such a seemingly abstract term has tremendous clinical significance to many people's experience. Drawing a parallel with recent exciting work on neural plasticity, "Embodiment" illustrates how we are now in an age of 'body plasticity'; where our body boundaries are becoming increasingly ambiguous, allowing us more 'degrees of freedom' and offering more opportunities than ever before to overcome physical limitations. The book draws on research from diverse areas, including health and clinical psychology, neuroscience, medicine, nursing, anthropology, philosophy and sociology: it is a key resource for students of these disciplines.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) : illustrations, portrait.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-200) and index.
ISBN:9780335226276
0335226272
0335209602
9780335209606
0335209599
9780335209590
1280954531
9781280954535
9786610954537
6610954534

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