Depression Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities |
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Author:
| Lewis, Bradley |
ISBN: | 978-0-415-87721-3 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2011 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $40.95 |
Book Description:
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We live in an era of depression, a condition that causes extensive suffering for individuals and families and saps our collective productivity. Yet there remains considerable confusion about how to understand depression. Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities looks at the varied and multiple models through which depression is understood. Highlighting how depression is increasingly seen through models of biomedicine--and through biomedical catch-alls such...
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We live in an era of depression, a condition that causes extensive suffering for individuals and families and saps our collective productivity. Yet there remains considerable confusion about how to understand depression. Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities looks at the varied and multiple models through which depression is understood. Highlighting how depression is increasingly seen through models of biomedicine--and through biomedical catch-alls such as "broken brains" and "chemical imbalances"--psychiatrist and cultural studies scholar Bradley Lewis shows how depression is also understood through a variety of other contemporary models. Furthermore, Lewis explores the different ways that depression has been categorized, described, and experienced across history and across cultures.