Stuart McClean
I am a social anthropologist working at UWE, Bristol as a Public Health academic. My research interests are the wider health and wellbeing culture and the ways this manifests in different ideas, practices and ideologies in Western societies. I am interested in describing how individuals and communities work at 'doing well' and 'being well', the interconnected nature of these experiences, and in explaining the current socio-cultural forces and trends that underpin it.
Phone: +44(0)117 3288783
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Department of Health and Applied Social Sciences
Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences
UWE, Bristol
Phone: +44(0)117 3288783
Address: Room 3L07
Department of Health and Applied Social Sciences
Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences
UWE, Bristol
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Books by Stuart McClean
Cover Info:
Who people are, how they change and grow, hurt and love, age and die, and what has shaped their lives, are questions that are seldom unraveled exclusively by traditional psychology or sociology texts. In this book the authors provide a more integrated and interdisciplinary introduction to theorising the life course that ‘connects up’ self and society. Central to the book is the exploration and interrogation of the nature of the human life course, and at its heart is a psychosocial approach.
The authors highlight the very inter-connectedness between the internal, intimate concerns of individual lives and the external social, economic and political order that largely governs and shapes those lives. Such an approach draws upon a diverse range of theories and perspectives, from psychoanalysis, psychology, and sociology, to make sense of and shed light on these contemporary issues about self and society.
Contents:
1. Psychosocial Theory: being and becoming
2. How People Begin: 'the child as father to the man'
3. How People Become: Agency and identification
4. How People Connect: love, marriage and the family
5. How People are Occupied: school, work and after
6. How People Thrive: resilience and well-being
7. How People Struggle: social suffering and ill-being
8. How People Hurt and Hate: violence and bullying
9. How People Age and Die: disengagement, disruption and loss ""
Reviews:
'This innovative book connects up psychological, psychoanalytical and sociological perspectives, to better understand in a comprehensive way how both socio-cultural contexts and the psyche, can influence the individual life span. Students, professionals and teachers in health and welfare professions will find this book a 'must have' resource that can provide an organic theoretical framework to think in a multi-dimensional way.' – Annamaria Campanini, Professor at Milano Bicocca University, Italy, and past president of the European Association on Schools of Social Work (EEASW)
'A timely and concise contribution of the emerging field of Psychosocial Studies that will introduce students to some of the challenges it poses to existing ways of thinking about the life course.' - Professor Sasha Roseneil, Birkbeck, University of London
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Introduction: Folk Healing in Contemporary Britain and Ireland: Revival, Revitalisation or Reinvention?
Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean
Chapter 2
Folk Healing and a Post-scientific World
Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean
Chapter 3
The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth-century Ireland
Catherine Cox
Chapter 4
Folk Healing in Rural Wales: The Use of Wool Measuring
Susan Philpin
Chapter 5
A General Practice, A Country Practice: The Cure, the Charm and Informal Healing in Northern Ireland
Ronnie Moore
Chapter 6
Rescuing Folk Remedies: Ethnoknowledge and the Reinvention of Indigenous Herbal Medicine in Britain
Ayo Wahlberg
Chapter 7
Crystal and Spiritual Healing in Northern England: Folk-inspired Systems of Medicine
Stuart McClean
Chapter 8
Medical Pluralism in the Republic of Ireland: Biomedicines as Ethnomedicines
Anne Macfarlane and Tomas deBrun
Chapter 9
Born To It and Then Pushed Out of It: Folk Healing in the New Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marketplace
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Chapter 10
Beyond Legislation: Why Chicken Soup and Regulation Don’t Mix
Julie Stone
Chapter 11
Epilogue: Towards Authentic Medicine: Bodies and Boundaries
Stuart McClean and Ronnie Moore
Notes on Contributors
Index
Conventional socio-scientific wisdom suggests that esoteric healing is counter-cultural, in that its emergence is illustrative of ‘New Age’ ideology. The author argues, contrary to this position, that in healing there is a tension. There is a tension between the personalization that healing practices exhibit, and the striving for orthodoxy, both with the Centre itself, and also among the wider healing community. Thus, even apparently esoteric forms of complementary medicine are influenced by the language of science and medicine. This book highlights examples of this mimicry of medicine, and points to a range of explanations for this contemporary social phenomenon. In particular, this book throws into question the conventional biomedicine/CAM boundary and offers some insight into the common metaphorical basis of medicine and healing, and the continued social and cultural influence of biomedicine in Western societies. The book makes a key contribution to the social and health sciences body of knowledge on CAM by exploring its resurgence in the context of wider debates on modernity and postmodernity.
Papers by Stuart McClean
Cover Info:
Who people are, how they change and grow, hurt and love, age and die, and what has shaped their lives, are questions that are seldom unraveled exclusively by traditional psychology or sociology texts. In this book the authors provide a more integrated and interdisciplinary introduction to theorising the life course that ‘connects up’ self and society. Central to the book is the exploration and interrogation of the nature of the human life course, and at its heart is a psychosocial approach.
The authors highlight the very inter-connectedness between the internal, intimate concerns of individual lives and the external social, economic and political order that largely governs and shapes those lives. Such an approach draws upon a diverse range of theories and perspectives, from psychoanalysis, psychology, and sociology, to make sense of and shed light on these contemporary issues about self and society.
Contents:
1. Psychosocial Theory: being and becoming
2. How People Begin: 'the child as father to the man'
3. How People Become: Agency and identification
4. How People Connect: love, marriage and the family
5. How People are Occupied: school, work and after
6. How People Thrive: resilience and well-being
7. How People Struggle: social suffering and ill-being
8. How People Hurt and Hate: violence and bullying
9. How People Age and Die: disengagement, disruption and loss ""
Reviews:
'This innovative book connects up psychological, psychoanalytical and sociological perspectives, to better understand in a comprehensive way how both socio-cultural contexts and the psyche, can influence the individual life span. Students, professionals and teachers in health and welfare professions will find this book a 'must have' resource that can provide an organic theoretical framework to think in a multi-dimensional way.' – Annamaria Campanini, Professor at Milano Bicocca University, Italy, and past president of the European Association on Schools of Social Work (EEASW)
'A timely and concise contribution of the emerging field of Psychosocial Studies that will introduce students to some of the challenges it poses to existing ways of thinking about the life course.' - Professor Sasha Roseneil, Birkbeck, University of London
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Introduction: Folk Healing in Contemporary Britain and Ireland: Revival, Revitalisation or Reinvention?
Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean
Chapter 2
Folk Healing and a Post-scientific World
Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean
Chapter 3
The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth-century Ireland
Catherine Cox
Chapter 4
Folk Healing in Rural Wales: The Use of Wool Measuring
Susan Philpin
Chapter 5
A General Practice, A Country Practice: The Cure, the Charm and Informal Healing in Northern Ireland
Ronnie Moore
Chapter 6
Rescuing Folk Remedies: Ethnoknowledge and the Reinvention of Indigenous Herbal Medicine in Britain
Ayo Wahlberg
Chapter 7
Crystal and Spiritual Healing in Northern England: Folk-inspired Systems of Medicine
Stuart McClean
Chapter 8
Medical Pluralism in the Republic of Ireland: Biomedicines as Ethnomedicines
Anne Macfarlane and Tomas deBrun
Chapter 9
Born To It and Then Pushed Out of It: Folk Healing in the New Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marketplace
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Chapter 10
Beyond Legislation: Why Chicken Soup and Regulation Don’t Mix
Julie Stone
Chapter 11
Epilogue: Towards Authentic Medicine: Bodies and Boundaries
Stuart McClean and Ronnie Moore
Notes on Contributors
Index
Conventional socio-scientific wisdom suggests that esoteric healing is counter-cultural, in that its emergence is illustrative of ‘New Age’ ideology. The author argues, contrary to this position, that in healing there is a tension. There is a tension between the personalization that healing practices exhibit, and the striving for orthodoxy, both with the Centre itself, and also among the wider healing community. Thus, even apparently esoteric forms of complementary medicine are influenced by the language of science and medicine. This book highlights examples of this mimicry of medicine, and points to a range of explanations for this contemporary social phenomenon. In particular, this book throws into question the conventional biomedicine/CAM boundary and offers some insight into the common metaphorical basis of medicine and healing, and the continued social and cultural influence of biomedicine in Western societies. The book makes a key contribution to the social and health sciences body of knowledge on CAM by exploring its resurgence in the context of wider debates on modernity and postmodernity.