| Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Culture: Depression in a Southern Black Community Contributor(s): Dressler, William W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791404137 ISBN-13: 9780791404133 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Mood Disorders - Depression - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 616.852 |
| LCCN: 89026307 |
| Physical Information: 354 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book provides a unique study in social and cultural psychiatry, carried out in an African-American community in the rural South. Using a combination of concepts and methods from anthropology and social epidemiology, the specific social and psychological risk factors for depression are examined. The author places special emphasis on how that risk is modified by the social and historical context of the Black community in the United States, and suggests a new basis for the sociocultural comparative study of health and disease. |
