TY - BOOK AU - Keohane,Kieran AU - Petersen,Anders TI - The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization SN - 9781317015635 AV - HM585 .S635 2016 U1 - 301 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis Group KW - Sociology-Psychological aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Social Pathologies: Addressing the Question -- 1 The Notion of Social Pathology: A Case Study of Narcissus in American Society -- 2 The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization: Meaning-giving Experiences and Pathological Expectations Concerning Health and Suffering -- 3 Modernity as Spiritual Disorder: Searching for a Vocabulary of Social Pathologies in the Work of Eric Voegelin -- Part II Social Pathologies: Contemporary Malaises -- 4 The Value of Houses in the Libidinal Economy: Financialization as Social Pathogenesis -- 5 Depression: Resisting Ultra-liberalism? -- 6 The Pathologization of Morality -- 7 The Multiple Self: A Social Pathology? -- 8 Possible Explanations for Increasing Antidepressant Treatment in Modern Society -- Part III Social Pathologies: Biopower, Subjectification and Civilization -- 9 Does Society Still Matter? Mental Health and Illness and the Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century -- 10 Evaluations as a Process of Disenfranchisement -- 11 Schismogenesis, Liminality and Public Health -- Index N2 - Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary problems of health and well-being, this book 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. Rather than considering such conditions in isolation - both from one another and from broader contexts - this volume argues that health and well-being are not just located at the level of the individual body, the integral human person, or even collective social bodies; rather, they encompass the health of humanity as a whole and our relationship with Nature UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4435557 ER -