This work discusses how the development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life. It considers how emotions are social things, controlled and managed in our everyday lives and transcend the divides between mind and body, nature and culture, structure and action. In this way, the text argues, they hold a crucial key to our understanding of social processes and can push forward the boundaries of sociological investigation. Yet the dominance of rationality in Western (masculinist) social thought has led to the relative neglect of emotions as irrational private,...
This work discusses how the development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life. It considers how emotions are socia...
What do we mean by 'gender' and how does this relate to health? How is 'biology' best understood? What does a focus on the division of labour bring to our understanding of health work? Is (gender) 'equity' in health possible? How have developments such as the resurgence of emotions and the new genetics affected these and other social relations at the turn of the century? These are just some of the questions addressed in Gender, Health and Healing in which a whole range of issues are brought together and connected to emerging concerns in contemporary life such as the...
What do we mean by 'gender' and how does this relate to health? How is 'biology' best understood? What does a focus on the division of labour br...
What do we mean by gender and how does this relate to health? How is biology best understood? What does a focus on the division of labour bring to our understanding of health work? Is (gender) equity in health possible? How have developments such as the resurgence of emotions and the new genetics affected these and other social relations at the turn of the century?
What do we mean by gender and how does this relate to health? How is biology best understood? What does a focus on the division of labour bring to our...
In this compelling new book, Gillian Bendelow provides an accessible account of the complex interplay between mind, body and society. Contemporary critiques of biomedicine and the process of medicalisation have long emphasised the limitations of traditional western scientific medicine in the separation of mind and body. The subsequent turn to more holistic models of health and illness is now beginning to permeate medical education and healthcare practice. For Bendelow, a key aspect of this paradigm shift is the development of more sophisticated concepts of stress, which address the...
In this compelling new book, Gillian Bendelow provides an accessible account of the complex interplay between mind, body and society. Contemporary cri...
