Making a Mindful Nation - Mental Health and Governance in the Twenty-First Century

"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"--

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Cook, Cook Joanna
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9780691244488
• ISBN: 978-0-691-24448-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Mindfulness, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mindfulness & Meditation, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Popular psychology, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Social and cultural anthropology, Coping with / advice about mental health issues