04205oam 2200745I 450 991078384420332120230207225144.01-134-38958-20-415-31005-91-280-02259-00-203-40451-31-134-38959-010.4324/9780203404515 (CKB)1000000000253767(EBL)171519(OCoLC)437079104(SSID)ssj0000309689(PQKBManifestationID)11224046(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309689(PQKBWorkID)10286243(PQKB)11589068(MiAaPQ)EBC171519(Au-PeEL)EBL171519(CaPaEBR)ebr10100441(CaONFJC)MIL2259(OCoLC)53180089(EXLCZ)99100000000025376720180706d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSocial and cultural lives of immune systems /edited by James M. Wilce, JrLondon ;New York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (329 p.)Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international healthDescription based upon print version of record.0-203-35160-6 0-415-31004-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: social and cultural lives of immune systems in a semiotic universe; Theoretical perspectives; Telling stories: the health benefits of disclosure; Relating to our worlds in a psychobiological context: the impact of disclosure on self-generation and immunity; Metaphors our bodyminds live by; ~Immune~ to emotion: the relative absence of emotion in PNI, and its centrality to everything else; PNI in the wild: anthropological fieldwork using endocrine and immune variablesChildhood stress: endocrine and immune responses to psychosocial eventsCultural congruity and the cortisol stress response among Dominican men; Life event stress and immune function in Samoan adolescents: toward a cross-cultural psychoneuroimmunology; Civilization and its stressed discontents: from individual stress to cross-national comparisons; The enigma of hypertension and psychosomatic illness: lessons for psychoneuroimmunology from beyond the conscious mind; Cultural variations in the placebo effect: ulcers, anxiety, and blood pressureCorporeal flows: the immune system, global economies of food, and new implications for healthCritical retrospectives; Stressful encounters of an immunological kind: the social dimensions of psychoneuroimmunology; Reflections on embodiment; IndexSocial and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems introduces a provocative new hypothesis in medico-social theory - the theory that immunity and disease are in part socially constituted. It argues that immune systems function not just as biological entities but also as symbolic concepts charged with political significance. Bridging elements of psychology, sociology, body theory, immunology and medical anthropology, twelve papers from leading scholars explain some of the health-hazards of emotional and social pressure, whilst analysing the semiotic and social responses to the imagery of immTheory and practice in medical anthropology and international health.Medical anthropologyImmune systemCultureSemiotic modelsHuman bodySocial aspectsHuman bodySymbolic aspectsMedical anthropology.Immune system.CultureSemiotic models.Human bodySocial aspects.Human bodySymbolic aspects.306.4/61Wilce James MacLynn1953-862249MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783844203321Social and cultural lives of immune systems3797634UNINA