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The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the
nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and
psychosomatic syndromes, examining the manner in which they are
related to cultural pathologies of the social body.
Multi-disciplinary in approach, the book is concerned with
questions of how these conditions are not only manifest at the
level of individual patients' bodies, but also how the social
'bodies politic' are related to the hegemony of reductive
biomedical and individual-psychologistic perspectives. Rejecting a
reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary
problems of health and well-being, The Social Pathologies of
Contemporary Civilization contends that many such problems are to
be understood in the light of radical changes in social structures
and institutions, extending to deep crises in our civilization as a
whole. Rather than considering such conditions in isolation - both
from one another and from broader contexts - this book argues that
health and well-being are not just located at the level of the
individual body, the integral human person, or even collective
social bodies; rather, they encompass the health of humanity as a
whole and our relationship with Nature. A ground-breaking analysis
of social malaise and the health of civilization, this book will be
of interest to scholars of sociology, social theory, social
psychology, philosophy and anthropology.
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