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Health, Emotion and The Body (Hardcover, New)
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Health, Emotion and The Body (Hardcover, New)
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In this compelling new book, Gillian Bendelow provides an
accessible account of the complex interplay between mind, body and
society. Contemporary critiques of biomedicine and the process of
medicalisation have long emphasised the limitations of traditional
western scientific medicine in the separation of mind and body. The
subsequent turn to more holistic models of health and illness is
now beginning to permeate medical education and healthcare
practice. For Bendelow, a key aspect of this paradigm shift is the
development of more sophisticated concepts of stress, which address
the intertwining of emotion and embodiment, and emphasise social
and material factors alongside biopsychological components. These
theoretical and conceptual issues are explored first through an
emphasis on contemporary health practices, and then through
developments in illness and medicine. Examining the ways in which
'healthism', rather than 'medicalisation', pervades most areas of
everyday life, attention is drawn to the bodily practices we pursue
in the name of health. These include concerns with sexual health,
health promotion, the use of complementary or alternative medicine,
and the notion of emotional health. The book then considers the
implications of being diagnosed as ill, and charts the limits of
the divisions between 'mental' and 'physical' illness, examining a
range of conditions, including chronic pain, eating disorders and
other illnesses of the contemporary world. Health, Emotion and the
Body combines clarity of expression with careful scholarship and
originality, making it appeal to students and scholars with a wide
range of interests, including the sociology of health and illness,
the body, and mental illness, as well as health psychology.
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