Social and cultural lives of immune systems /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2003. |
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| Description: | viii, 318 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health ; v. 10 |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4872797 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems in a Semiotic Universe
- Part 1. Theoretical Perspectives
- 2. Telling Stories: The health Benefits of Disclosure
- 3. Relating to Our Worlds in a Psychbiological Context: The Impact of Disclosure on Self-Generation and Immunity
- 4. Metaphors Our Bodyminds Live By
- 5. 'Immune' to Emotion: The Relative Absence of Emotion in PNI, and Its Centrality to Everything Else
- Part 2. Pni in the Wild: Anthropological Fieldwork Using Endocrine and Immune Variables
- 6. Childhood Street: Endocrine and Immune Responses to Psychosocial Events
- 7. Cultural Congruity and the Cortisol Street Response among Dominican Men
- 8. Life Event Stress and Immune Function in Samoan Adolescents: Toward a Cross-Cultural Psychoneuroimmunology
- Part 3. Civilization and its Stressed Discontents: From Individual Stress to Cross-National Comparisons
- 9. The Enigma of Hypertension and Psychosomatic Illness: Lessons for Psychoneuroimmunology From Beyond the Conscious Mind
- 10. Cultural Variations in the Placebo effect: Ulcers, Anxiety and Blood Pressure
- 11. Corporeal Flows: The Immune System and the Political Economy of Food
- Part 4. Critical Retrospectives
- 12. Stressful Encounters of an Immunological Kind: The Social Dimensions of Psychoneuroimmunology
- 13. Reflections on Embodiment