American Melancholy - Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century

Traces the growth of depression as an object of medical study and as a consumer commodity and illustrates how and why depression came to be such a huge medical, social, and cultural phenomenon. This is the first book to address gender issues in the construction of depression, explores key questions of how its diagnosis was developed, how it has been used, and how we should question its application in American society.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Prelude to Depression

Chapter Two: Redefining Treatment, Patients, and Disease in the Ever-Expanding Diagnosis of Depression

Chapter Three: American Moods and the Consumer Solution

Chapter Four: Gender, Depression, Diagnosis, and Power

Chapter Five: Feelings and Relationships

Epilogue: Real Men, Real Depression

Notes

Index

About the author

LAURA D. HIRSHBEIN is a practicing clinical psychiatrist and medical historian at the University of Michigan.

Product details

Authors	Dr Laura D Hirshbein, Laura D. Hirshbein
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	26.03.2014
EAN	9780813564739
ISBN	978-0-8135-6473-9
No. of pages	208
Series	Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Subject	Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

Product details

• Authors: Dr Laura D Hirshbein, Laura D. Hirshbein
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2014
• EAN: 9780813564739
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6473-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General