Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems introduces a provocative new hypothesis in medico-social theory - the theory that immunity and disease are in part socially constituted. It argues that immune systems function not just as biological entities but also as symbolic concepts charged with political significance. Bridging elements of psychology, sociology, body theory, immunology and medical anthropology, twelve papers from leading scholars explain some of the health-hazards of emotional and social pressure, whilst analysing the semiotic and social responses to the imagery of immunity.
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Jim Wilce has been Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University since 1994. His anthropology graduate studies, fieldwork, and his first book - Eloquence in Trouble: Poetics and Politics of Complaining in Bangladesh - combined his lifelong interests in language, illness, and healing. He has been working to develop a sociocultural perspective on psychoneuroimmunology and its role in symbolic healingsince 1990. His article on language and healing has appeared in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (1999) and has been reprinted twice, and his work in psychiatric anthropology has appeared in Cultural Anthropology, and the forthcoming volume, The edge of Experience: Culture, Subjectivity, and Schizophrenia (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Wilce lived in Bangledesh for five years in the 1980s and 1990s. He did fieldwork in the Chandpur and Comilla Districts, focusing on suffering and its discursive expressions in domestic and medical settings. He has focused particular attention on spontaneously improvised laments once heard commonly in Bangladesh and around the world. His article on lament appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History (2001) and his new book on this topic, Crying Shame, should appear in 2005.
Wilce lived in Bangledesh for five years in the 1980s and 1990s. He did fieldwork in the Chandpur and Comilla Districts, focusing on suffering and its discursive expressions in domestic and medical settings. He has focused particular attention on spontaneously improvised laments once heard commonly in Bangladesh and around the world. His article on lament appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History (2001) and his new book on this topic, Crying Shame, should appear in 2005.
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perceived emotional distress, placebo healing rates, rural caribbean village, cultural consonance, glucocorticoid stress response, average cortisol levels, distressed mood, immune measures, cortisol profiles, putting stress into words, oral tolerance, saliva collection, emotional disclosure, systemic immune system, emotional contagion, genetic children, immune self, elevated cortisol levels, paroxysmal hypertension, salivary cortisol Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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New York, Academic Press, United States, New Zealand, Oxford University Press, San Diego, Bwa Mawego, African American, University of Chicago Press, American Anthropologist, Basic Books, Department of Agriculture, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Ness York, Economic Research Service, American Journal of Human Biology, Emily Martin, New England Journal of Medicine, North America, Psychological Bulletin, References Ader, Agricultural Economic Report, American Psychiatric Association, Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal New!
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