| Description |
1 online resource (287 pages) |
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Environment and Health Series |
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Environment and Health Series
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; PART I: OVERVIEW OF MASS PSYCHOGENIC ILLNESS: HYSTERIA REVISITED?; 1. Analyzing a Case of Mass Psychogenic Illness; The ""Bug"" and the Epidemic; A Schematic Overview; Design and Basic Findings; Personal Characteristics, Social Relations, and Mode of Response; A Multidimensional Model; A General Overview; Concluding Observations; References; 2. Outbreaks of Mass Hysteria at Workplaces in Singapore: Some Patterns and Modes of Presentation; Abstract; General Patterns of Mass Hysteria Cases; References |
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3. A Review of Mass Psychogenic Illness in Work SettingsAbstract; Summary and Conclusion; References; PART II: METHODOLOGICAL AND PROBLEMATIC ISSUES IN MPI RESEARCH; 4. Complexities, Cautions and Concepts in Research on Mass Psychogenic Illness; Abstract; Some Complexities in the Problem; Some Conceptual and Methodological Cautions; Some Concepts for a Model of MPI; References; 5. Mass Psychogenic Illness: Individual and Aggregate Data; Summary; Introduction; Results; Discussion; References; 6. Evidence and Inference in Research on Mass Psychogenic Illness; Introduction |
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Symptomology and MeasurementMedical and Environmental Testing; Diagnosis and Misdiagnosis; Ameliorative Action and Its Effect; Analyzing Count Data; Archives and Secondary Analysis; References; 7. Yes Virginia, There Really is a Mass Psychogenic Illness; Introduction; Toxic Vs. Social Causes; The Normality of MPI; Some Unanswered Questions; Conclusion; References; PART III: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO MASS PSYCHOGENIC ILLNESS; 8. Social and Perceptual Factors Affecting Symptom Reporting and Mass Psychogenic Illness; Abstract; Introduction; Perception of External and Internal Events |
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Attention, Schemas and Selective Search: Research EvidenceImplications for Mass Psychogenic Disorders; References; 9. Mass Psychogenic Illness: The Case for Social Comparison; Abstract; Sources of Stress in Occupational Settings; Social Comparisons: Affiliation and Emotion; Social Comparison and MPI; Social Comparison and Worker Characteristics; Women and MPI; Conclusion; References; 10. Theories of Contagion As They Relate to Mass Psychogenic Illness; Abstract; References; 11. Illness as an Emergent Norm or Doing What Comes Naturally; Abstract; Mystery Gas: Description; Conclusions |
| Summary |
First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Bibliography |
References12. A Social Psychological View of Mass Psychogenic Illness; Abstract; Introduction; The Dynamics of Evolution; Confirming the Threat; Illness and its ""Cause""; Summary; Variations in Time and (Social) Space; Who Becomes a Case?; What is a ""Credible"" Explanation?; Sequence and Severity; The Importance of Being Female; Directions for Research; References; 13. Perspectives on Epidemic Hysteria; Abstract; Historical Survey; Clinical Aspects; The Epidemic Process; Conclusion; References; 14. Stress and Coping Theory Applied to the Investigation of Mass Industrial Psychogenic Illness |
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Abstract |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Pennebaker, J. W
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Murphy, L. R
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| ISBN |
9781317838647 |
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1317838645 |
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