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(2015) The Palgrave handbook of social theory in health, illness and medicine, Dordrecht, Springer.
Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman
civilised-dramaturgical bodies, social status and health inequalities
Peter Freund
pp. 158-173
This chapter explores the relevance of the works of Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman for understanding some connections between "mindbodies', society, health and well-being. After brief biographical sketches of Elias and Goffman, Elias' work on the civilising process is discussed along with his "psychosomatics' in which he suggests neuro-hormonal pathways between "mindbodies' and society. The increasingly internalised forms of social control, characteristic of civilised societies, are embodied in the form of what Elias called the "habitus'.
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Freund, P. (2015)., Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman: civilised-dramaturgical bodies, social status and health inequalities, in F. Collyer (ed.), The Palgrave handbook of social theory in health, illness and medicine, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 158-173.
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