The Urban Brain : Mental Health in the Vital City /

"Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illness Most of the world's people now live in cities and millions have moved from the countryside to the rapidly growing megacities of the global south. How does the urban experience shape t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Rose, Nikolas S. (Autor), Fitzgerald, Des (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urban health.
Stress (Psychology)
Mental health > Environmental aspects.
Cities and towns > Health aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Stress.
Sante mentale > Aspect de l'environnement.
Sante urbaine.
Urban Health
Urban ecology (Sociology) > Health aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Embodied Brains
  • Urban Inhabitations
  • Moving People
  • Vital Sociology
  • The Plan of the Book
  • 1. Modern Cities, Migrant Cities
  • Mentalities of Migration
  • Seeing the City
  • Chicago: Proud and Vigorous
  • Philadelphia: Striving, Palpitating
  • How Do They Really Live?
  • From Migrant Biopolitics to Migration Studies
  • The Migrant City Today
  • 2. Migration, the Metropolis, and Mental Disorder
  • Psychiatry Encounters Migration
  • Degeneracy, Eugenics, and Migration
  • Migration and Mental Health Today
  • Refining 'Migration'
  • Mental Health and 'the Slums'
  • Crushed Dreams or First Steps
  • 3. The Metropolis and Mental Life Today-Shanghai 2018
  • Migrant Nation
  • Migrant Labor
  • China: A Mental Health Crisis?
  • 'Stress' and the Psy Complex
  • Measuring and Managing Migrant Mental Health
  • 4. Everyone Knows What Stress Is and No One Knows What Stress Is
  • General Adaptation Syndrome
  • Locating Stress
  • Rat Cities, City Rats
  • The Meaning of Urban Stress
  • Stress and Beyond: Toward the Urban Brain
  • 5. The Urban Brain
  • The Urbanicity Effect
  • Understanding Urbanicity-To a New Style of Thought?
  • Seeing the Urban Brain
  • The Biopolitics of Stress
  • Epigenetics: Beyond the Genetic Program
  • Neuroplasticity: The Modulated Brain
  • The Exposome: An Urban Sensorium
  • Toward a Conception of the Neurosocial City
  • 6. Another Urban Biopolitics Is Possible
  • Urban Justice: The Right to the City
  • Of 'Other' Urban Spaces
  • Transcorporeal Exposures: Beyond the Binary
  • Opening Our Eyes
  • Mental Maps of the Imagined City
  • Ecological Psychology
  • Niching
  • Precarious Niching
  • A New Urban Biopolitics?
  • Conclusion: Toward a Sociology of Inhabitation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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