Black dogs and blue words : depression and gender in the age of self-care /

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His "black dog"--That was how Winston Churchill referred to his own depression. Today, individuals with feelings of sadness and irritability are encouraged to "talk to your doctor." These have become buzz words in the aggressive promotion of wonder-drug cures since 1997, when the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Emmons, Kimberly, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Temas:
Depression in women.
Mental illness in mass media.
Publicity.
Advertising.
Mass media.
Self-care, Health.
Depressive Disorder > psychology
Advertising
Communications Media
Self Care
Women > psychology
Mass Media
Dépression chez la femme.
Maladies mentales dans les médias.
Publicité.
Médias.
Autothérapie.
advertising.
mass media.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Depression.
SELF-HELP > Mood Disorders.
SELF-HELP > Depression.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
Self-care, Health
Publicity
Mass media
Depression in women
Mental illness in mass media
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Depression, a rhetorical illness
  • Articulate depression : the discursive legacy of biological psychiatry
  • Strategic imprecision and the self-doctoring drive
  • Isolating words : metaphors that shape depression's identities
  • Telling stories of depression : models for the gendered self
  • Diagnostic genres and the reconfiguring of medical expertise
  • Conclusion : toward a rhetorical care of the self.

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