Vol 5, No 1 (2013)

Translating Happiness: Medicine, Culture and Social Progress

Table of Contents

Editorial Introduction
K. Aubrecht
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i-xiii
Encounters with Translations of Happiness
T. Titchkosky
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xiv-xviii

Articles

Happiness and the Art of Life: Diagnosing the psychopolitics of wellbeing
M. Greco, P. Stenner
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1-19
Against Flourishing: Wellbeing as biopolitics, and the psychoanalytic alternative
C. Wright
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20-35
Psychocapital and Shangri-Las: How happiness became both a means and end to governmentality
F. Mckay
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36-50
Happiness, Sadness and Government
G. Duncan
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51-66
Happiness: Notes on History, Culture and Governance
C. Kingfisher
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67-82
Work, Health, Music: The enduring Rusyn model of a good life amid changing socioeconomic contexts of progress
K. M. Cantin
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83-98
Contested Histories and Happiness: Leprosy literature in Japan
K. M. Tanaka
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99-118
Learning the Scripts: An exploration of the shared ways in which young Lao volunteers in Vientiane understand happiness.
C. McMellon
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119-134
The Neoliberal Circulation of Affects: Happiness, accessibility and the capacitation of disability as wheelchair
K. Fritsch
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135-149
Staying Positive: Women's illness narratives and the stigmatized vernacular
S. Bock
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150-166
As If You Have a Choice: Autism mothers and the remaking of the human
P. N. Douglas
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167-181
Cultivating a Troubled Consciousness: Compulsory sound-mindedness and complicity in oppression
C. Chapman
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182-198
Research/Advocacy/Community: Reflections on Asian American trauma, heteropatriarchal betrayal, and trans/gender-variant health disparities research
S. J. Hwahng
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199-229
Alterity In/Of Happiness: Reflecting on the radical possibilities of unruly bodies
E. Chandler, C. Rice
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230-248
From Comparison to Indices: A disabling perspective on the history of happiness
Y. Söderfeldt, P. Verstraete
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249-264
Chronic Illness as a Source of Happiness: Paradox or perfectly normal?
S. Hoppe
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265-278
The Pursuit of Happiness, Stress and Temporomandibular Disorders
D. Marcus, E. Baehrisch
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279-293
Who is Teaching Us about Sustainable Happiness and Well-Being?
C O'Brien
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294-307
Understanding Well-Being in Multi-Levels: A review
E. C. W. Ng, A. T. Fisher
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308-323

Invited Articles

What to Do When there is Nothing to Do: The psychotherapeutic value of Meaning Therapy in the treatment of late life depression
J. H. Morgan
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324-330