Research Catalog

Title

Social and cultural lives of immune systems / edited by James M. Wilce, Jr.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• American Anthropological Association
• Society for Medical Anthropology
• Wilce, James MacLynn, 1953-

Description

viii, 318 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This book introduces a provocative new branch of social theory: the hypothesis that immunity and disease are in part socially constituted. It suggests that immune systems function not only as material entities but also as social symbols. [from publisher's advertisement].

Series Statement

Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health v. 10.

Subject

• Anthropology, Cultural > methods
• Anthropology, Medical
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Culture > Semiotic models
• Culture > Semiotic models > Congresses
• Human Body
• Human body > Social aspects
• Human body > Social aspects > Congresses
• Human body > Symbolic aspects
• Human body > Symbolic aspects > Congresses
• Immune System
• Immune system
• Immune system > Congresses
• Medical anthropology
• Medical anthropology > Congresses
• Psychophysiology

Genre/Form

Essays.

Note

• Papers presented at panels at the meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology held in Seattle, March 1997 and the American Anthropological Association held in Washington, D.C., November 1997.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction: social and cultural lives of immune systems in a semiotic universe / James M. Wilce Jr. -- pt. I. Theoretical perspectives -- 2. Telling stories: the health benefits of disclosure / James W. Pennebaker -- 3. Relating to our worlds in a psychological context: the impact of disclosure on self-generation and immunity / Roger J. Booth and Kathryn P. Davison -- 4. Metaphors our bodyminds live by / James M. Wilce Jr. and Laurie J. Price -- 5. "Immune" to emotion: the relative absence of emotion in PNI, and its centrality to everything else / Margot Lyon -- pt. II. PNI in the wild: anthropological fieldwork using endocrine and immune variables -- 6. Childhood stress: endocrine and immune responses to psychosocial events / Mark V. Flinn and Barry G. England -- 7. Cultural congruity and the cortisol stress response among Dominican men / Seamus A. Decker, Mark V. Flinn, Barry G. England and Carol M. Worthman -- 8. Life event stress and immune function in Samoan adolescents: toward a cross-cultural psychoneuroimmunology / Thomas W. McDade -- pt. III. Civilization and its stressed discontents: from individual stress to cross-national comparisons -- 9. The engima of hypertension and psychosomatic illness: lesson for psychoneuroimmunology from beyond the conscious mind / Samuel J. Mann -- 10. Cultural variations in the placebo effects: ulcers, anxiety, and blood pressure / Daniel E. Moerman -- 11. Corporeal flows: the immune system, global economies of food, and new implications for health / Richard Cone and Emily Martin -- pt. IV. Critical retrospectives -- 12. Stressful encounters of an immunological kind: the social dimensions of psychoneuroimmunology / David Napier -- 13. Reflections on embodiment / Laurence J. Kirmayer.

ISBN

• 0415310040 (hbk)
• 0415310059 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002031935

OCLC

50736987

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library