Depression : Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities

ISBN-13: 9780415877206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 136 str.

Bradley Lewis

Opis

We live in an era of depression. The World Health Organization estimates that depression affects 121 million people across the globe. It is the 4th leading cause of global disease burden, and, by the year 2020, it will be the 2nd leading cause. Plus, the experience of depression can be intensely painful. At its worst, it leads to suicide, killing approximately 850,000 persons every year. Despite the extensive suffering caused by depression, there remains considerable confusion about how to understand it. Depression reviews and advances the current state of the art on this very complicated human condition.

Recenzje

"Depression is a remarkable act of synthesis. Bradley Lewis expertly pulls together scientific, philosophical, and cultural literatures about this most enigmatic mental illness in compelling and highly readable fashion. The result is nothing short of a breathtaking rethinking of mental illness; one that takes science seriously, but that also engages with critiques of brain scans and pharmaceuticals. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about psychiatry, culture, and the relationships between them."—Jonathan Metzl, Sociology and Medicine, Health and Society, Vanderbilt University

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.