1st Edition
Rethinking Health Radical Implications from Contemporary Interdisciplinary Research
Prologue: A Personal Story
1. Why We Need a New Framework for Understanding Health
2. The False Dichotomy of Mind and Body
3. Inflammation: The Master Mediator
4. Sources of Inflammation
5. Redefining Health to Include Social Relationships and Positive Affect
6. The Social Ecology of Health: Social/Commercial Determinants of Health
7. Social Justice and Health
8. Climate Change and Health
9. Entry Points: The Vagus Nerve and Gut Microbiome
10. Democratization of Knowledge, Interdisciplinarity, and Limitations
Biography
Christie Napa Scollon is a Professor of Psychology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, USA. During her 20+ year career, she has published dozens of papers and chapters on the topic of well-being and emotions, with her work appearing in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American Psychologist, and the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. She has taught popular undergraduate courses such as Abnormal Psychology, The Science of Happiness, Positive Psychology, and Health Psychology from where the idea for this book arose.
