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Alienation and Wellbeing
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Alienation theory has received scant attention within the sociology of health as a theoretical explanation of health and wellbeing inequalities. I make the case for why alienation theory adds to sociological understandings of health and wellbeing in this book. I propose a novel reworking of alienation theory that centres the multiple relations between people, their societies, their bodies, their emotions, their health and wellbeing. A set of relations that is affected and shaped by life in capitalist society, a social and economic form that ultimately acts against wellbeing.Wellbeing plays a central role in my argument. I state that alienation is experienced as a detriment to overall physical and emotional wellbeing. Drawing on recent research in the sociology of health, I discuss how people as embodied social beings exist in a series of dialectical economic, social, biological and material relations. If one element of that set of relations overwhelms the other relations, this can lead to emotional and physical harms. By focusing on alienation and wellbeing I provide a concrete understanding of alienation as a lived experience of pain and suffering.
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Yuill, C. (2023). Alienation and Wellbeing. Policy Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219296.001.0001
Yuill, Chris. “Alienation and Wellbeing.” Policy Press eBooks, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219296.001.0001.
Yuill, Chris. 2023. “Alienation and Wellbeing.” Policy Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219296.001.0001.
Yuill, C. (2023) ‘Alienation and Wellbeing’, Policy Press eBooks. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219296.001.0001.
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