The social pathologies of contemporary civilization
By: [edited] by Kieran Keohane and Anders Petersen
Series: Classical and contemporary social theory
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Farnham; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781409445050; 9781409445067
Subjects: Sociology; Diseases; Psychological aspects; Social aspects; Pathology; Philosophy; Modern Civilization
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.