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The Urban Brain - Mental Health in the Vital City (Paperback)
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The Urban Brain - Mental Health in the Vital City (Paperback)
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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 the mental lives of those living in and
moving to cities today? Sociologists study cities as centers of
personal progress and social innovation, but also exclusion,
racism, and inequality. Psychiatrists try to explain the high rates
of mental disorders among urban dwellers, especially migrants. But
the split between the social and life sciences has hindered
understanding of how urban experience is written into the bodies
and brains of urbanites. In The Urban Brain, Nikolas Rose and Des
Fitzgerald seek to revive the collaboration between sociology and
psychiatry about these critical questions. Reexamining the
relationship between the city and the brain, Rose and Fitzgerald
explore the ways cities shape the mental health and illness of
those who inhabit them. Drawing on the social and life sciences,
The Urban Brain takes an ecosocial approach to the vital city, in
which humans live and thrive but too often get sick and suffer. The
result demonstrates what we can gain by a vitalist approach to the
mental lives of those migrating to and living in cities, focusing
on the ways that humans make, remake, and inhabit their urban
lifeworlds.
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