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Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems.
This book introduces a provocative new branch of social theory: the hypothesis that immunity and disease are in part socially constituted. It suggests that immune systems function not only as material entities but also as social symbols.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Colección: | Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: social and cultural lives of immune systems in a semiotic universe; Theoretical perspectives; Telling stories: the health benefits of disclosure; Relating to our worlds in a psychobiological context: the impact of disclosure on self-generation and immunity; Metaphors our bodyminds live by; ~Immune~ to emotion: the relative absence of emotion in PNI, and its centrality to everything else; PNI in the wild: anthropological fieldwork using endocrine and immune variables.
- Childhood stress: endocrine and immune responses to psychosocial eventsCultural congruity and the cortisol stress response among Dominican men; Life event stress and immune function in Samoan adolescents: toward a cross-cultural psychoneuroimmunology; Civilization and its stressed discontents: from individual stress to cross-national comparisons; The enigma of hypertension and psychosomatic illness: lessons for psychoneuroimmunology.