ISBN:
0203404513
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9780203404515
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 318 pages)
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illustrations.
Series Statement:
Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health
Parallel Title:
Print version Social and cultural lives of immune systems
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Culture Semiotic models
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Human body Social aspects
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Human body Symbolic aspects
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Medical anthropology
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Immune system
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Culture Semiotic models
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Human body Social aspects
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Human body Symbolic aspects
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Human body Symbolic aspects
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Medical anthropology
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Human body Social aspects
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Immune system
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Culture Semiotic models
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Psychophysiology
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Immune System
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Anthropology, Cultural methods
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Human Body
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Culture ; Semiotic models
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Human body ; Social aspects
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Human body ; Symbolic aspects
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Immune system
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Medical anthropology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Annotation
Abstract:
Chapter psychobiological context --The impact of disclosure on self- generation and immunity /Roger J. Booth --chapter live by /James M. Wilce Jr --chapter cortisol stress response among Dominican men /Seamus A. Decker --chapter function in Samoan adolescents --Toward a cross-cultural psychoneuroimmunology /Thomas W. McDade --chapter and psychosomatic illness --Lessons for psychoneuroimmunology from beyond the conscious mind --chapter placebo effect --Ulcers, anxiety, and blood pressure /Daniel E. Moerman --chapter immunological kind --The social dimensions of psychoneuroimmunology.
Abstract:
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
Note:
"This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003"--T.p. verso
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Includes bibliographical references and index
