Research and Markets: Health, Emotion and the Body Is a Compelling New Book Providing an Accessible Account of the Complex Interplay between Mind, Body and Society

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and
Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/d710df/health_emotion_an) has
announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Health, Emotion
and The Body" to their offering.

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.

These theoretical and conceptual issues are explored first through an emphasis
on contemporary health practices, and then through developments in illness and
medicine. Examining the ways in which 'healthism', rather than 'medicalisation',
pervades most areas of everyday life, attention is drawn to the bodily practices
we pursue in the name of health. These include concerns with sexual health,
health promotion, the use of complementary or alternative medicine, and the
notion of emotional health. The book then considers the implications of being
diagnosed as ill, and charts the limits of the divisions between 'mental' and
'physical' illness, examining a range of conditions, including chronic pain,
eating disorders and other illnesses of the contemporary world.

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.

* About the Author
* Gillian Bendelow is Reader in Sociology at the University of Sussex.
* Key Topics Covered:
* Preface.
* Chapter 1 Beyond Biomedicalization: Integrated Models of Health & Illness.
* Chapter 2 'Stress': the Key to Mind/Body?
* Chapter 3 Medically Unexplained Symptoms and 'Contested Conditions'.
* Chapter 4 Medical Responses to Emotional Distress.
* Chapter 5 Complementary Medicine and Alternative Healing Systems.
* Chapter 6 Holism or Healthism?
* Bibliography

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