Monica Greco
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Greco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Greco |
| SIGNATURE | GRECO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 248 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Explanation for symptoms and biographical repair in a clinic for persistent physical symptoms
Introduction: Biographical disruption describes the process by which illness impacts not just on a person's body and their participation in activities, but also on their sense of self. Biographical disruption is often followed by a process of biographical repair in which identity is reconstructed and a new normality is restored. People with persistent physical symptoms (sometimes referred to as medically unexplained symptoms) experience biographi…
The Body
The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as: the body and…
Enterprising Kinship
Este capítulo, intitulado "Enterprising Kinship", examina como as novas tecnologias reprodutivas (NTRs) desafiam e reconfiguram as noções tradicionais de parentesco. Strathern argumenta que as NTRs, em vez de simplesmente romper com as formas existentes de parentesco, criam novas possibilidades e dilemas para a compreensão das relações familiares. A autora explora como a lógica empresarial, com sua ênfase na escolha, agência e eficiência, se entr…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Liminal Hotspots
This article introduces a special issue of Theory and Psychology on liminal hotspots. A liminal hotspot is an occasion during which people feel they are caught suspended in the circumstances of a transition that has become permanent. The liminal experiences of ambiguity and uncertainty that are typically at play in transitional circumstances acquire an enduring quality that can be described as a “hotspot”. Liminal hotspots are characterized by dy…
From paradox to pattern shift
This article introduces the concept of liminal hotspots as a specifically psychosocial and sociopsychological type of wicked problem, best addressed in a process-theoretical framework. A liminal hotspot is defined as an occasion characterised by the experience of being trapped in the interstitial dimension between different forms-of-process. The paper has two main aims. First, to articulate a nexus of concepts associated with liminal hotspots tha…
Pragmatics of explanation
This article describes an emergent reconfiguration of the problem of somatization in contemporary research and practice around 'medically unexplained symptoms' among UK-based primary care researchers with a special interest in these conditions. Based on an analysis of clinical research literature and on participant observation in the early stages of a clinical research project, the article explores recent accounts of the role of medicine and doct…
What is the DSM? Diagnostic manual, cultural icon, political battleground
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the APA (known as the DSM) is a system for the classification of mental disorders that provides diagnostic criteria used by psychiatrists and experts in related fields. Although classification systems and standards are ubiquitous in social life, they are rarely conspicuous and almost never become an object of public debate. Yet the DSM has attained the status of a ‘cultural icon’ and ha…
The Politics of Attachment
Research on attachment is widely regarded in sociology and feminist scholarship as politically conservative - oriented by a concern to police families, pathologize mothers and emphasize psychological at the expense of socio-economic factors. These critiques have presented attachment theory as constructing biological imperatives to naturalize contingent, social demands. We propose that a more effective critique of the politically conservative uses…
The classification and nomenclature of 'medically unexplained symptoms
On the Art of Life
Medicine and the Body
On the Vitality of Vitalism
The term 'vitalism' is most readily associated with a series of debates among 18th- and 19th-century biologists, and broadly with the claim that the explanation of living phenomena is not compatible with, or is not exhausted by, the principles of basic sciences like physics and chemistry. Scientists and philosophers have continued to address vitalism - mostly in order to reject it - well into the second half of the 20th century, in connection wit…
The ambivalence of error
The Politics of Indeterminacy and the Right to Health
Discussions of the framework and terminology associated with the right to health tend to treat the indeterminacy of 'health' as conceptual noise that the construction of effective policy must not focus on, but find ways of bracketing out. On this basis, the right to health is broadly regarded as a social and economic, rather than a civil and political right. A focus on indeterminacy allows for the perception and the formulation of health-related …
Inconspicuous Anomalies
This article uses the analysis and discussion of the 'alexithymia construct' to approach the question of how we might think about the relationship between ethics and illness. After a brief introduction to the construct, its paradigmatic potential within the broader context of psychosomatic medicine is discussed. The article then elaborates on the sociocultural specificity of alexithymia, both as a construct and as a mode of being, to argue that c…
Between social and organic norms
Contemporary accounts of somatization tend to imply that the 'biological' and the 'social' are competing and mutually contradictory epistemological perspectives. This situation ismirrored by the alternative between biomedical objectivism and sociological relativism in accounting for the reality (or, indeed, the non-reality) of this phenomenon as a pathological condition. This paper reads the debate on somatization through Canguilhem's writings. C…
Psychosomatic subjects and the 'duty to be well'. personal agency within
This paper compares the epistemologies of psychosomatics and biomedicine and examines their interrelation. In so far as the psychosomatic subject constitutes both the locus and the ultimate responsible agency of preventive intervention, the event of disease has become a moment of verification of the moral aptitude of individuals to form part of the society within which they live. While the ‘right to health’ is preserved through the biomedical san…
Psychosomatic subjects and the 'duty to be well'. personal agency within
This paper compares the epistemologies of psychosomatics and biomedicine and examines their interrelation. In so far as the psychosomatic subject constitutes both the locus and the ultimate responsible agency of preventive intervention, the event of disease has become a moment of verification of the moral aptitude of individuals to form part of the society within which they live. While the ‘right to health’ is preserved through the biomedical san…
On the Vitality of Vitalism
The term 'vitalism' is most readily associated with a series of debates among 18th- and 19th-century biologists, and broadly with the claim that the explanation of living phenomena is not compatible with, or is not exhausted by, the principles of basic sciences like physics and chemistry. Scientists and philosophers have continued to address vitalism - mostly in order to reject it - well into the second half of the 20th century, in connection wit…
The Politics of Indeterminacy and the Right to Health
Discussions of the framework and terminology associated with the right to health tend to treat the indeterminacy of 'health' as conceptual noise that the construction of effective policy must not focus on, but find ways of bracketing out. On this basis, the right to health is broadly regarded as a social and economic, rather than a civil and political right. A focus on indeterminacy allows for the perception and the formulation of health-related …
The classification and nomenclature of 'medically unexplained symptoms
Pragmatics of explanation
This article describes an emergent reconfiguration of the problem of somatization in contemporary research and practice around 'medically unexplained symptoms' among UK-based primary care researchers with a special interest in these conditions. Based on an analysis of clinical research literature and on participant observation in the early stages of a clinical research project, the article explores recent accounts of the role of medicine and doct…
The Politics of Attachment
Research on attachment is widely regarded in sociology and feminist scholarship as politically conservative - oriented by a concern to police families, pathologize mothers and emphasize psychological at the expense of socio-economic factors. These critiques have presented attachment theory as constructing biological imperatives to naturalize contingent, social demands. We propose that a more effective critique of the politically conservative uses…
Between social and organic norms
Contemporary accounts of somatization tend to imply that the 'biological' and the 'social' are competing and mutually contradictory epistemological perspectives. This situation ismirrored by the alternative between biomedical objectivism and sociological relativism in accounting for the reality (or, indeed, the non-reality) of this phenomenon as a pathological condition. This paper reads the debate on somatization through Canguilhem's writings. C…
The ambivalence of error
On the Art of Life
Inconspicuous Anomalies
This article uses the analysis and discussion of the 'alexithymia construct' to approach the question of how we might think about the relationship between ethics and illness. After a brief introduction to the construct, its paradigmatic potential within the broader context of psychosomatic medicine is discussed. The article then elaborates on the sociocultural specificity of alexithymia, both as a construct and as a mode of being, to argue that c…
Enterprising Kinship
Este capítulo, intitulado "Enterprising Kinship", examina como as novas tecnologias reprodutivas (NTRs) desafiam e reconfiguram as noções tradicionais de parentesco. Strathern argumenta que as NTRs, em vez de simplesmente romper com as formas existentes de parentesco, criam novas possibilidades e dilemas para a compreensão das relações familiares. A autora explora como a lógica empresarial, com sua ênfase na escolha, agência e eficiência, se entr…
Psychosomatic subjects and the 'duty to be well'. personal agency within
This paper compares the epistemologies of psychosomatics and biomedicine and examines their interrelation. In so far as the psychosomatic subject constitutes both the locus and the ultimate responsible agency of preventive intervention, the event of disease has become a moment of verification of the moral aptitude of individuals to form part of the society within which they live. While the ‘right to health’ is preserved through the biomedical san…
Between social and organic norms
Contemporary accounts of somatization tend to imply that the 'biological' and the 'social' are competing and mutually contradictory epistemological perspectives. This situation ismirrored by the alternative between biomedical objectivism and sociological relativism in accounting for the reality (or, indeed, the non-reality) of this phenomenon as a pathological condition. This paper reads the debate on somatization through Canguilhem's writings. C…
Inconspicuous Anomalies
This article uses the analysis and discussion of the 'alexithymia construct' to approach the question of how we might think about the relationship between ethics and illness. After a brief introduction to the construct, its paradigmatic potential within the broader context of psychosomatic medicine is discussed. The article then elaborates on the sociocultural specificity of alexithymia, both as a construct and as a mode of being, to argue that c…
The ambivalence of error
The Politics of Indeterminacy and the Right to Health
Discussions of the framework and terminology associated with the right to health tend to treat the indeterminacy of 'health' as conceptual noise that the construction of effective policy must not focus on, but find ways of bracketing out. On this basis, the right to health is broadly regarded as a social and economic, rather than a civil and political right. A focus on indeterminacy allows for the perception and the formulation of health-related …
Medicine and the Body
On the Vitality of Vitalism
The term 'vitalism' is most readily associated with a series of debates among 18th- and 19th-century biologists, and broadly with the claim that the explanation of living phenomena is not compatible with, or is not exhausted by, the principles of basic sciences like physics and chemistry. Scientists and philosophers have continued to address vitalism - mostly in order to reject it - well into the second half of the 20th century, in connection wit…
On the Art of Life
The classification and nomenclature of 'medically unexplained symptoms
What is the DSM? Diagnostic manual, cultural icon, political battleground
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the APA (known as the DSM) is a system for the classification of mental disorders that provides diagnostic criteria used by psychiatrists and experts in related fields. Although classification systems and standards are ubiquitous in social life, they are rarely conspicuous and almost never become an object of public debate. Yet the DSM has attained the status of a ‘cultural icon’ and ha…
The Politics of Attachment
Research on attachment is widely regarded in sociology and feminist scholarship as politically conservative - oriented by a concern to police families, pathologize mothers and emphasize psychological at the expense of socio-economic factors. These critiques have presented attachment theory as constructing biological imperatives to naturalize contingent, social demands. We propose that a more effective critique of the politically conservative uses…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Liminal Hotspots
This article introduces a special issue of Theory and Psychology on liminal hotspots. A liminal hotspot is an occasion during which people feel they are caught suspended in the circumstances of a transition that has become permanent. The liminal experiences of ambiguity and uncertainty that are typically at play in transitional circumstances acquire an enduring quality that can be described as a “hotspot”. Liminal hotspots are characterized by dy…
From paradox to pattern shift
This article introduces the concept of liminal hotspots as a specifically psychosocial and sociopsychological type of wicked problem, best addressed in a process-theoretical framework. A liminal hotspot is defined as an occasion characterised by the experience of being trapped in the interstitial dimension between different forms-of-process. The paper has two main aims. First, to articulate a nexus of concepts associated with liminal hotspots tha…
Pragmatics of explanation
This article describes an emergent reconfiguration of the problem of somatization in contemporary research and practice around 'medically unexplained symptoms' among UK-based primary care researchers with a special interest in these conditions. Based on an analysis of clinical research literature and on participant observation in the early stages of a clinical research project, the article explores recent accounts of the role of medicine and doct…
The Body
The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as: the body and…
Enterprising Kinship
Este capítulo, intitulado "Enterprising Kinship", examina como as novas tecnologias reprodutivas (NTRs) desafiam e reconfiguram as noções tradicionais de parentesco. Strathern argumenta que as NTRs, em vez de simplesmente romper com as formas existentes de parentesco, criam novas possibilidades e dilemas para a compreensão das relações familiares. A autora explora como a lógica empresarial, com sua ênfase na escolha, agência e eficiência, se entr…
Explanation for symptoms and biographical repair in a clinic for persistent physical symptoms
Introduction: Biographical disruption describes the process by which illness impacts not just on a person's body and their participation in activities, but also on their sense of self. Biographical disruption is often followed by a process of biographical repair in which identity is reconstructed and a new normality is restored. People with persistent physical symptoms (sometimes referred to as medically unexplained symptoms) experience biographi…
Sociology (15 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)