Joanna Cook

Broschiertes Buch

Making a Mindful Nation

Mental Health and Governance in the Twenty-First Century

Beschreibung

"In this book an anthropologist explores how the widespread shift in popular understandings of mental health have led to the embrace of "mindfulness" as both a form of preventative healthcare and as an ethical practice"--

Autor

Joanna Cook is a Reader in Medical Anthropology at University College London. She is the author of Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life and the coauthor of The State We’re In: Reflecting on Democracy’s Troubles and other books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780691244488
• ISBN-10: 0691244480
• Artikelnr.: 66726028