Lewis Depression

Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-136-59813-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Bradley

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. PART I: The Facts. 1. What We Teach Our Doctors. 2. What We Also Know. PART II: Historical and Cultural Context. 3. Western History. 4. Cultural Context. PART III: Theoretical and Clinical Concerns. 5. What We Will Never Know. 6. Clinical Encounters. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Bradley Lewis is Associate Professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study with affiliated appointments in the Department of Psychiatry, the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and the Division of Medical Humanities. He has dual training in humanities and psychiatry, and he writes and teaches at the interface of medicine, humanities, cultural studies, and disability studies. Lewis is the author of Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry and Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Shape Clinical Practice.