Unhealthy and Dangerous Lifestyles – and the Care of the Self

Contents

Editorial: Unhealthy and Dangerous Lifestyles – and the Care of the Self 4
Riikka Perälä and Max Ryynänen

Articles:

Unhealthy Lifestyle or Modern Disease? 10
Constructing Narcotic Addiction and Its Treatments in the United States (1870-1920)
Irène Delcourt

 
The Body is a Soft Machine: 32
The Twisted Somaesthetic of William S. Burroughs
Robert W. Jones II 

Suicide, Social Bodies, and Danger: 48
Taboo, Biopower, and Parental Worry in the Films Bridgend (2015) and Bird Box (2018)
Heidi Kosonen 

Care of the Self, Somaesthetics, and Men Affected by Eating Disorders: 64
Rethinking the Focus on Men’s Beauty Ideals
Henri Hyvönen 

What the Drug Culture Meant 82
Crispin Sartwell 

 
Book Reviews: 

Urban Aesthetics and Soma-Politics: 89
On Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life
Stefano Marino

Vinod Balakrishnan and Swathi Elizabeth Kurian 97
Somaesthetics and Yogasūtra: A Reading through Films
Noora-Helena Korpelainen