Transcending Crisis by Attending to Care, Emotion, and Flourishing

Marci Cottingham, Rebecca Erickson, Matthew Lee

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Routledge
05 June 2023

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Moral & social purpose of education; Personal & public health; Medical sociology; Nursing fundamentals & skills

Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

This book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, and flourishing in the context of acute and persistent crises.

From COVID-19 responses around the world to the opioid epidemic in the United States, this volume investigates collective and individual crises as symptoms of underlying systemic pathologies. Crises require deep engagement with both structure and culture, drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from sociology, nursing, social work, and psychology. Addressing the multi-level challenges of caregiving in families, schools, organizations, and communities, this book presents examples of research and practice that demonstrate compassion, resilience, productive collaboration, and flourishing. It documents the social conditions and processes that spawn effective solutions and positive emotional and health outcomes, which often occur amid chaos, rapid social change, and substantial suffering. The first section focuses on care, emotions, and flourishing in healthcare and educational contexts to examine nurses, students, and teachers as they respond to enduring and acute crises. Section two turns to community and family contexts to understand how emotions and care intertwine in the flourishing practices of women and communities facing isolation during COVID-19, parents of opioid users, and international efforts to address child abuse and healthy aging. Geographically, the book covers experiences in Canada, Ghana, India, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each chapter discusses how we can move from managing emotions and coping with crisis to transcending crisis and promoting flourishing. The book includes case studies that illustrate hopeful and successful practices that might help us meet the challenges we face in this moment and move through them with compassion and enhanced flourishing.

Examining care across a range of professional contexts, including healthcare, education, community, and family settings, the authors explore similarities and differences in how these contexts shape care practices in light of collective threats and crises. This book is also a valuable contribution to the literatures on health and illness, the sociology of emotions, and the interdisciplinary field of well-being and flourishing.

Edited by: Marci Cottingham, Rebecca Erickson, Matthew Lee
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 621g
ISBN: 9781032196862
ISBN 10: 1032196866
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 05 June 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marci D. Cottingham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College, United States. She was previously Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and a visiting fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany. Rebecca J. Erickson is Professor of Sociology, and Chair of Sociology and Anthropology at The University of Akron, United States. Matthew T. Lee is Professor of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University and Flourishing Network Director and Research Associate at the Human Flourishing Program in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, United States. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Health, Flourishing, and Positive Psychology at Stony Brook University’s Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics.