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'Drawing on the humanities and social sciences, this rich and interesting collection challenges the hegemony of reductive psychological and biomedical accounts of illness and emotional disorder under today's globalized neoliberal capitalism.'Dick Houtman, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands'Few academics would feel comfortable with using the term civilization to define contemporary social and cultural complexes, and many would be suspicious, with good reason, of any attempt to use medical language in the investigation of their ills. However, this collection of papers courageously grasps the nettle in giving close interrogations to aspects of contemporary human experience and its unease in health and well-being, experience of selfhood and moral fluidity. Individual chapters in the book re-examine our vocabulary of social pathology and malaise with reference to cutting edge multi-disciplinary themes and bring us up to date with current anti-reductionist discourses in topics as diverse as psychiatry and the household economy. The painstaking level of conceptual analysis on display here should make any reader confident that the pathologies of civilization can be re-examined in very contemporary and innovative ways.'Jeff Vass, University of Southampton, UK

"'Drawing on the humanities and social sciences, this rich and interesting collection challenges the hegemony of reductive psychological and biomedical accounts of illness and emotional disorder under today's globalized neoliberal capitalism.' Dick Houtman, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands 'Few academics would feel comfortable with using the term ""civilization"" to define contemporary social and cultural complexes, and many would be suspicious, with good reason, of any attempt to use medical language in the investigation of their ills. However, this collection of papers courageously grasps the nettle in giving close interrogations to aspects of contemporary human experience and its unease in health and well-being, experience of selfhood and moral fluidity. Individual chapters in the book re-examine our vocabulary of social pathology and malaise with reference to cutting edge multi-disciplinary themes and bring us up to date with current anti-reductionist discourses in topics as diverse as psychiatry and the household economy. The painstaking level of conceptual analysis on display here should make any reader confident that the ""pathologies of civilization"" can be re-examined in very contemporary and innovative ways.' Jeff Vass, University of Southampton, UK"

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Kieran Keohane is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Sociology and Philosophy, University College Cork, Ireland. Anders Petersen is Associate Professor of Sociology and Head of School at Aalborg University, Denmark and Chairman of The Danish Sociological Association. Kieran Keohane, Anders Petersen, Alain Ehrenberg, Arpad Szakolczai, Bjorn Thomassen, Bert van den Bergh, Svend Brinkmann, Annalisa Porfilio, Margrethe Nielsen, Gunnar Scott Reinbacher, Pia Ringo, Rasmus Willig, Agnes Horvath.

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