Stories of change: narrative and social movements
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"In Everyday Suffering, sociologist Joseph E. Davis explores the motivations of the millions of Americans who take mood-altering drugs not for a serious mental illness, but to help deal with the problems and suffering of everyday life. Whereas in the past, a person going through…
The Neurobiological Imaginary -- The Biologization of Everyday Suffering -- Appropriating Disorder -- Resisting Differentness -- Seeking Viable Selfhood -- After Psychology --Conclusion: A Crisis of the Spirit. "In Everyday Suffering, sociologist Joseph E. Davis explores the mo…
'Chemically imbalanced' is a field report on how ordinary people dealing with common problems explain their suffering, how they're increasingly turning to the thin and mechanistic language of the "body/brain", and what these encounters might tell us. Drawing on interviews with p…
"In Everyday Suffering, sociologist Joseph E. Davis explores the motivations of the millions of Americans who take mood-altering drugs not for a serious mental illness, but to help deal with the problems and suffering of everyday life. Whereas in the past, a person going through…
"In Everyday Suffering, sociologist Joseph E. Davis explores the motivations of the millions of Americans who take mood-altering drugs not for a serious mental illness, but to help deal with the problems and suffering of everyday life. Whereas in the past, a person going through…
"In Everyday Suffering, sociologist Joseph E. Davis explores the motivations of the millions of Americans who take mood-altering drugs not for a serious mental illness, but to help deal with the problems and suffering of everyday life. Whereas in the past, a person going through…
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