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Being and Well-Being: Health and the Working Bodies of Silicon Valley
J.A. English-Lueck
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Description for Being and Well-Being: Health and the Working Bodies of Silicon Valley
paperback. This book tells the stories of the workers, the young people who will be future workers, and retired people who feel capitalism in their very bodies, as they work to define what it means to be healthy in America. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHMC; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 408.
As the great American work-benefit experiment erodes, companies are increasingly asking people to take responsibility for managing their own health. There's no question work and health are intertwined. But what effect does an intensely productive, globally connected, high-tech work environment have on a population largely entrusted with overseeing their own health needs? In California's Silicon Valley, a distinctive and medically diverse health culture has emerged.
Being and Well-Being explores this health culture, detailing the biomedical, countercultural, and immigrant-based beliefs and practices that shape ideas about working, care-giving, and what it means to be healthy. As English-Lueck shows, ... Read more
As the great American work-benefit experiment erodes, companies are increasingly asking people to take responsibility for managing their own health. There's no question work and health are intertwined. But what effect does an intensely productive, globally connected, high-tech work environment have on a population largely entrusted with overseeing their own health needs? In California's Silicon Valley, a distinctive and medically diverse health culture has emerged.
Being and Well-Being explores this health culture, detailing the biomedical, countercultural, and immigrant-based beliefs and practices that shape ideas about working, care-giving, and what it means to be healthy. As English-Lueck shows, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804771580
SKU
V9780804771580
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About J.A. English-Lueck
J.A. English-Lueck is an anthropologist at San Jose State University and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future. She coauthored Busier Than Ever! Why American Families Can't Slow Down (Stanford University Press, 2007), with C.N. Darrah and J.M. Freeman, and authored Cultures@SiliconValley (Stanford University Press, 2002), winner of the 2006 Diana Forsythe Prize.
Reviews for Being and Well-Being: Health and the Working Bodies of Silicon Valley
"Carefully written, using data mined from a range of ethnographic projects spanning a period of 15 years, this thought-provoking monograph posits that Silicon Valley is very much a 'bellwether' for a host of emergent cultural forces related to work . . . Detailed and enjoyable to read, this monograph is a fine demonstration of the anthropologist's ability to challenge static ... Read more