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This book explores the often contentious relationship between
health, concepts of race and ethnicity, and the impact on South
Asian groups. Using medical sociological and anthropological
perspectives, it excavates racialised constructions of diabetes
'risk' within discourses, and highlights the contrasting counter
narratives in people's accounts of their everyday lives. By
identifying a number of components to the discursive, racialised
construction of 'risky' South Asian bodies, this book problematises
taken for granted understandings of culture, lifestyle and genetic
risk. The mobilisation of these mechanisms in health science and
interventions result in a racialising gaze, directed at groups
already experiencing historically embedded race-related issues. The
book situates these constructions of risk against the emergent,
fluid and dynamic counter narratives to risk constructions. The new
found momentum in genetic science is also critiqued in its
formulation of racial-genetic risk, especially in the case of
diabetes in South Asian groups, and is identified as perpetuating a
series of racializing processes.
Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the
question of madness as it is experienced by women within gendered
socio-political contexts. Chapter themes include diverse topics
such as: black and ethnic minority women's experiences of
psychosis; psychosis in transwomen; sexual trauma and psychosis;
the doctor-patient relationship; and women's experiences of mental
health treatment and recovery. Chapters span the disciplines of
psychoanalysis, sociology, feminism / women's studies, critical
theory, and mad studies. As a companion volume to Women and
Psychosis: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, the overarching goal of
this book is to provide an exploration of the unique interaction
between the social and the psyche as it relates to marginalized
women's mental health.
Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the
question of madness as it is experienced by women within gendered
sociopolitical contexts. Contributors to this edited collection
engage with a diverse range of topics, including black and ethnic
minority women's experiences of psychosis, psychosis in transwomen,
sexual trauma and psychosis, the doctor-patient relationship, and
women's experiences of mental health treatment and recovery.
Chapters span the disciplines of psychoanalysis, sociology, women's
studies, critical theory, and madness studies.
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