Health, emotion, and the body
By: Gillian Bendelow
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780745636436; 9780745636443
Subjects: Mind-body relations (Metaphysics); Leib-Seele-Problem; Mind and body; Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; Gesundheitsfo rderung; Holistic medicine; Medicine and psychology; Holistic Health; Ganzheitsmedizin
Description: "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 intertwining of emotion and embodiment, and emphasise social and material factors alongside biopsychological components.

Health, Emotion and the Body combines clarity of expression with careful scholarship and originality, making it appeal to students and scholars with a wide range of interests, including the sociology of health and illness, the body, and mental illness, as well as health psychology."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-159) and index.