Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities Contributor(s): Lewis, Bradley (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415877210 ISBN-13: 9780415877213 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Depression |
Dewey: 616.852 |
LCCN: 2011017460 |
Series: Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.50 lbs) 124 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |