Depression : integrating science, culture, and humanities

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780415877206 (hbk)
ISBN: 0415877202 (hbk)
ISBN: 9780415877213 (pbk)
ISBN: 0415877210 (pbk)
ISBN: 9780203357323 (ebk)
ISBN: 0203357329 (ebk)
Physical Description: print
xi, 121 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	New December 2013.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-118) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The facts -- What we teach our doctors -- What we also know -- Historical and cultural perspectives -- Western history -- Cultural context -- Theoretical and clinical concerns -- What we may never know -- Clinical encounters -- References -- Index.