Urban Brain - Mental Health in the Vital City

"Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illness Most of the world's people now live in cities and millions have moved from the countryside to the rapidly growing megacities of the global south. How does the urban experience shape the mental lives of those living in and moving to cities today? Sociologists study cities as centers of personal progress and social innovation, but also exclusion, racism, and inequality. Psychiatrists try to explain the high rates of mental disorders among urban dwellers, especially migrants. But the split between the social and life sciences has hindered understanding of how urban experience is written into the bodies and brains of urbanites. In The Urban Brain, Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald seek to revive the collaboration between sociology and psychiatry about these critical questions. Reexamining the relationship between the city and the brain, Rose and Fitzgerald explore the ways cities shape the mental health and illness of those who inhabit them.Drawing on the social and life sciences, The Urban Brain takes an ecosocial approach to the vital city, in which humans live and thrive but too often get sick and suffer. The result demonstrates what we can gain by a vitalist approach to the mental lives of those migrating to and living in cities, focusing on the ways that humans make, remake, and inhabit their urban lifeworlds"--

About the author

Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald

Additional text

"Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, British Sociological Association"

Product details

• Authors: Des Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Des, Nikolas Rose, Nikolas Fitzgerald Rose, Rose Nikolas
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.03.2022
• EAN: 9780691178608
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17860-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Personal & public health, Care of the mentally ill, Sociology: work & labour, Care of people with mental health issues, Personal and public health / health education, Sociology: work and labour