The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization - Couverture souple

Livre 10 sur 70: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

Keohane, Kieran

 
9781138273436: The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1138273430 ISBN 13 : 9781138273436
Editeur : Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kieran Keohane is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Sociology and Philosophy, University College Cork, Ireland. Anders Petersen is Associate Professor of Sociology and Head of School at Aalborg University, Denmark and Chairman of The Danish Sociological Association.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138273430
ISBN 13 
9781138273436
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Éditeur
Petersen Anders
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1409445054 ISBN 13 :  9781409445050
Editeur : Routledge, 2013
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