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TY - JOUR
T1 - Messengers of Stress
T2 - Towards a cortisol sociology
AU - Roberts, Celia
AU - McWade, Brigit
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Roberts, C. and McWade, B. (2021), Messengers of stress: Towards a cortisol sociology. Sociol Health Illn, 43: 895-909. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13261 which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.13261 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2021/5/31
Y1 - 2021/5/31
N2 - In 2008, Timmermans and Haas called for a sociology of disease to develop and challenge the sociology of health and illness. A sociology of disease, they argued, would take seriously the biological and physiological processes of disease in theorising health and illness. Building on two decades of Science and Technology Studies and feminist work on biological actors such as hormones and genes, we propose a cortisol sociology to push further at this argument. As a ‘messenger of stress,’ cortisol is key to understanding human and non-human health as a biosocial phenomenon. We argue that sociologists should engage with cortisol through critical yet open-minded reading of the relevant science and critical triangulation studies, and by tracking cortisol’s movements from science into public worlds of biosensing and self-monitoring.
AB - In 2008, Timmermans and Haas called for a sociology of disease to develop and challenge the sociology of health and illness. A sociology of disease, they argued, would take seriously the biological and physiological processes of disease in theorising health and illness. Building on two decades of Science and Technology Studies and feminist work on biological actors such as hormones and genes, we propose a cortisol sociology to push further at this argument. As a ‘messenger of stress,’ cortisol is key to understanding human and non-human health as a biosocial phenomenon. We argue that sociologists should engage with cortisol through critical yet open-minded reading of the relevant science and critical triangulation studies, and by tracking cortisol’s movements from science into public worlds of biosensing and self-monitoring.
KW - sociology
KW - cortisol
KW - stress
KW - hormones
KW - biosocial
KW - biosensing
KW - self-tracking
U2 - 10.1111/1467-9566.13261
DO - 10.1111/1467-9566.13261
M3 - Journal article
VL - 43
SP - 895
EP - 909
JO - Sociology of Health and Illness
JF - Sociology of Health and Illness
SN - 0141-9889
IS - 4
ER -