American Melancholy : Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century /
"Depression was not classified as a disease until the 1980 publication of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-III (DSM-III). How, then, is it that such an illness, thought to affect between 14 and 17 million Americans, was not specifically defined until...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2009.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Prelude to depression
- The expanding diagnosis of depression
- American moods and the consumer solution
- Gender, depression, diagnosis, and power
- Feelings and relationships
- Epilogue: Real men, real depression.