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Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures by Clare Southerton (2024, Hardcover)

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PublisherEmerald Publishing The Limited

ISBN-101804555851

ISBN-139781804555859

eBay Product ID (ePID)4067061776

Product Key Features

Number of Pages184 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameResearching Contemporary Wellness Cultures

SubjectHealth Care Issues, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

AuthorClare Southerton

Subject AreaSocial Science, Health & Fitness

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal301

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures; Naomi Smith, Clare Southerton, and Marianne Clark Section 1. Wellness, Whiteness and Conspiracy Cultures Chapter 1. The Body Complex: (Con)spirituality, Wellness and Covid-19 in Australia; Anna Halafoff, Ruth Fitzpatrick, and Cristina Rocha Chapter 2. COVID-19 mis/disinformation in online wellness communities: Narratives of individualism and practices of networked resistance; Ashleigh Haw, Jay Daniel Thompson, and Rob Cover Chapter 3. Looking good, feeling good and refusing the jab: Tracing the relationships between healthism, wellness culture and COVID vaccine hesitancy; Naomi Smith, Marianne Clark, and Clare Southerton Section 2. Lived Wellness Practice Chapter 4. Measuring wellbeing: A critical rapid review of scales used in advanced cancer contexts; Alexandra Smith, Rebecca Olson, Maddison Cuerton, Keesha Abdul Khalil, Philip Good, and Janet Hardy Chapter 5. Search Inside Yourself: Google, Mindfulness, and Workplace Wellbeing; Leanne Downing Chapter 6. Wellness washing: Wellness, work and the transformation of pleasure; Naomi Smith, Alexia Maddox, Jenny L. Davis, and Monica Barratt Section 3. The 'Wellness Body', Food and Diet Culture Chapter 7. "I just have to remember that my body is different": Asian-Australian women's experiences with wellness culture; Clare Davies Chapter 8. 'Relaxed restriction': 'What I Eat In A Day' videos and the persistence of diet culture; Justine Topham Chapter 9. Combatting wellness misinformation on YouTube: the case of Abbey Sharp; Edith Hill Chapter 10. 'Having it all': Wellness culture, Instagram bodies and 'perfect lives' in a Time of Global Ecological Crisis; Julia Coffey

SynopsisWellness has become a mainstream concept, yet we have limited sociological understanding of how wellness functions in contemporary Western culture. Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures is the first collection to bring together scholars examining wellness practices within various sociological sub-disciplines across and in related fields including anthropology, cultural studies, and internet studies. Investigating the growing field of wellness practices and practitioners, in order to understand the role of wellness practice in negotiations of the Western medical system. Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures explores the various ways and spaces in which wellness is constructed, produced, circulated and contested, with contributing authors exploring everything from the intersections of wellness movements and far-right conspiracy spaces to the competing discourses at work in popular "What I Eat in a Day" videos on YouTube., Researching Contemporary Wellness Culturesbrings together scholars examining the various ways and spaces in which wellness is constructed and practices within various sociological sub-disciplines across and in related fields including anthropology, cultural studies, and internet studies., Wellness has become a mainstream concept, yet we have limited sociological understanding of how wellness functions in contemporary Western culture. Researching Contemporary Wellness Culturesis the first collection to bring together scholars examining wellness practices within various sociological sub-disciplines across and in related fields including anthropology, cultural studies, and internet studies. Investigating the growing field of wellness practices and practitioners, in order to understand the role of wellness practice in negotiations of the Western medical system. Researching Contemporary Wellness Culturesexplores the various ways and spaces in which wellness is constructed, produced, circulated and contested, with contributing authors exploring everything from the intersections of wellness movements and far-right conspiracy spaces to the competing discourses at work in popular "What I Eat in a Day" videos on YouTube.

LC Classification NumberHM(1)-1281