Inflammation has risen to the forefront of biomedical research into many chronic diseases
prevalent in industrialized countries, including mental, metabolic, and postviral conditions …

Auszug Das Konzept der Biosozialität (Rabinow 1992) verweist auf eine mannigfaltige
Verschränkung verschiedener Phänomene, die gemeinhin als entweder natürlich oder …

The social and behavioral sciences are at a crossroads in public health. In this paper, we
attempt to describe a path toward the further integration of the natural and behavioral …

Der Artikel behandelt drei theoretische Zugänge zum soziologischen Verständnis von
chronischer Krankheit. Der erste dieser Zugänge ist der strukturtheoretische, der die …

Moving on from biology to psychology, we propose that the core function of the
psychological is agency. This conception of the psychological in the new reworked …

Trotz intensiver Bemühungen der empirischen Public Health Forschung und trotz
wachsender Zahl statistischer Befunde zu einzelnen Zusammenhängen von sozialen …

The supposition that a higher risk of morbidity and mortality is connected with the belonging
to a particular social class has been confirmed by numerous national and international …

This article argues for an affective approach to obesity that destabilizes the conceptual
boundaries between the biological and the social aspects of food, eating, and fatness. Its …

Ecosocial theory accordingly requires explicit consideration of pathways of embodiment in
relation to types and levels of exposure, the period and spatial expanse involved (ie …

How does society affect health deep within the recesses of the human body? What role do
emotions play in these processes, and what light does this shed on the relationship between …