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This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late
modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer's disease, in terms of
their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually
these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of
individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for
the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also
have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular
symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimer's
are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps
of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book
addresses questions of how these conditions are manifest at both
the individual and collective levels in relation to hegemonic
biomedical and psychologistic understandings. Rejecting such
reductive diagnoses, the authors argue that anxiety, depression and
Alzheimer's disease, as well as other contemporary epidemics, are
to be analysed in the light of individual and collective
experiences of profound and radical changes in our civilization. A
diagnosis of our times, Late Modern Subjectivity and its
Discontents will appeal to a broad range of scholars with interests
in health and illness, the sociology of medicine and contemporary
life.
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.
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.
This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late
modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer's disease, in terms of
their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually
these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of
individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for
the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also
have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular
symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimer's
are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps
of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book
addresses questions of how these conditions are manifest at both
the individual and collective levels in relation to hegemonic
biomedical and psychologistic understandings. Rejecting such
reductive diagnoses, the authors argue that anxiety, depression and
Alzheimer's disease, as well as other contemporary epidemics, are
to be analysed in the light of individual and collective
experiences of profound and radical changes in our civilization. A
diagnosis of our times, Late Modern Subjectivity and its
Discontents will appeal to a broad range of scholars with interests
in health and illness, the sociology of medicine and contemporary
life.
This book provides an analysis of neo-liberal political economics
implemented in Ireland and the deleterious consequences of that
model in terms of polarised social inequalities, impoverished
public services and fiscal vulnerability as they appear in central
social policy domains - health, housing and education in
particular. Tracing the argument into the domains where the
institutions are sustained and reproduced, this book examines the
movement of modern economics away from its original concern with
the household and anthropologically universal deep human needs to
care for the vulnerable - the sick, children and the elderly - and
to maintain inter-generational solidarity. The authors argue that
the financialisation of social relations undermines the foundations
of civilisation and opens up a marketised barbarism. Civic
catastrophes of violent conflict and authoritarian liberalism are
here illustrated as aspects of the 'rough beast' that slouches in
when things are falling apart and people become prey to new forms
of domination. -- .
Ireland is going through a period of unprecedented economic and
cultural growth and renewal. Living standards in the Republic are
growing in an unprecedented manner. These changes are due in part
to neoliberal policies in attracting major US capital, and in part
to successfully capturing EU capital. The social consequences of
these economic events have led to an Ireland which has become
cosmopolitan, whose Roman Catholicism has been secularised, and to
which Irish people are returning. Laws concerning divorce and
sexuality have been liberalised and Ireland has become an urban
society for the first time ever. This book explains what has
happened socially, but also provide examples of the cultural
transformation, which has allowed local creative talent to flow. At
all points of the compass, Ireland is an exciting place to live.
This book provides a rich analysis of Ireland, examining the
problems of benefits of the changes taking place. Inevitably, in a
rapidly expanding economy, there are winners and losers: where
capitalism works for a wide number of people in a community, the
adrenaline flows, but the people who cannot keep up may fall by the
wayside. Ireland over the last 15 years, capturing the intensity of
the debates that make up the new cosmopolitan multi-cultural
Ireland.
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