Social and cultural lives of immune systems / / edited by James M. Wilce, Jr |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/61 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WilceJames MacLynn <1953-> |
Collana | Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health |
Soggetto topico |
Medical anthropology
Immune system Culture - Semiotic models Human body - Social aspects Human body - Symbolic aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-415-31005-9
1-280-02259-0 0-203-40451-3 1-134-38959-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 variables
Childhood 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 pressure Corporeal 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451363803321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Social and cultural lives of immune systems / / edited by James M. Wilce, Jr |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/61 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WilceJames MacLynn <1953-> |
Collana | Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health |
Soggetto topico |
Medical anthropology
Immune system Culture - Semiotic models Human body - Social aspects Human body - Symbolic aspects |
ISBN |
1-134-38958-2
0-415-31005-9 1-280-02259-0 0-203-40451-3 1-134-38959-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 variables
Childhood 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 pressure Corporeal 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783844203321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Social and cultural lives of immune systems / / edited by James M. Wilce, Jr |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/61 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WilceJames MacLynn <1953-> |
Collana | Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health |
Soggetto topico |
Medical anthropology
Immune system Culture - Semiotic models Human body - Social aspects Human body - Symbolic aspects |
ISBN |
1-134-38958-2
0-415-31005-9 1-280-02259-0 0-203-40451-3 1-134-38959-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 variables
Childhood 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 pressure Corporeal 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815706303321 |
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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