ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |2 pages
Introduction
part |45 pages
The Facts
chapter |20 pages
What We Teach Our Doctors
chapter |25 pages
What We Also Know
part |32 pages
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
chapter |20 pages
Western History
chapter |12 pages
Cultural Context
part |28 pages
Theoretical and Clinical Concerns