Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems

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ISBN: 9780415310055 | 0415310059
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Copyright: 6/10/2003

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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.

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List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: social and cultural lives of immune systems in a semiotic universe

(16)

JAMES M. WILCE JR

PART I Theoretical perspectives

(86)

2 Telling stories: the health benefits of disclosure

(17)

JAMES W. PENNEBAKER

3 Relating to our worlds in a psychobiological context: the impact of disclosure on self-generation and immunity

(14)

ROGER J. BOOTH AND KATHRYN P. DAVISON

4 Metaphors our bodyminds live by

(32)

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

(21)

MARGOT LYON

PART II PNI in the wild: anthropological fieldwork using endocrine and immune variables

103

(86)

6 Childhood stress: endocrine and immune responses to psychosocial events

105

(42)

MARK V. FLINN AND BARRY G. ENGLAND

7 Cultural congruity and the cortisol stress response among Dominican men

147

(23)

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

170

(19)

THOMAS W. MCDADE

PART III Civilization and its stressed discontents: from individual stress to cross-national comparisons

189

(78)

9 The enigma of hypertension and psychosomatic illness: lessons for psychoneuroimmunology from beyond the conscious mind

191

(15)

SAMUEL J. MANN

10 Cultural variations in the placebo effect: ulcers, anxiety, and blood pressure

206

(26)

DANIEL E. MOERMAN

11 Corporeal flows: the immune system, global economies of food, and new implications for health

232

(35)

RICHARD CONE AND EMILY MARTIN

PART IV Critical retrospectives

267

(36)

12 Stressful encounters of an immunological kind: the social dimensions of psychoneuroimmunology

269

(13)

DAVID NAPIER

13 Reflections on embodiment

282

(21)

LAURENCE J. KIRMAYER

Index

303

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Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems

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