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Life Course Approach, Embodiment and Cancer

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The purpose of this chapter is to provide a brief summary of the way in which the social becomes biological, also conceptualised as the biological embodiment of the social environment. Firstly, this synthesis presents and defines the concept of embodiment and its usefulness when aiming to understand the construction of the social gradient in health. Secondly, we will present a potential measure of embodiment through the measure of allostatic load and discuss the limitations and opportunities that it presents for studying the social determinants of health before discussing how and why the concept of embodiment may be particularly relevant in the cancer field. This synthesis is based on the main findings from the literature focused on life course epidemiology and embodiment and highlights more specifically some of the work carried out by our research team.

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Delpierre, C., Kelly-Irving, M. (2021). Life Course Approach, Embodiment and Cancer. In: Launoy, G., Zadnik, V., Coleman, M.P. (eds) Social Environment and Cancer in Europe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69329-9_16

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