Black dogs and blue words depression and gender in the age of self-care
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press
c2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797949606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Depression and Gender in the Age of Self-Care
- 1. Depression, a Rhetorical Illness
- 2. Articulate Depression: The Discursive Legacy of Biological Psychiatry
- 3. Strategic Imprecision and the Self-Doctoring Drive
- 4. Isolating Words: Metaphors That Shape Depression's Identities
- 5. Telling Stories of Depression: Models for the Gendered Self
- 6. Diagnostic Genres and the Reconfiguring of Medical Expertise
- Conclusion: Toward a Rhetorical Care of the Self
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
