The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization

By Kieran Keohane

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409445054
• ISBN13: 9781409445050
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"