From Melancholia to Prozac by Clark Lawlor
Exactly what is depression? Do we under- or over-diagnose it? Do treatments on offer really work? Clark Lawlor sheds light on the current debates by looking back at how depression has been described, understood, and dealt with in other cultures and throughout history.
A well researched.. thought-provoking book * The Economist *
the incorporation of a large variety of ideas and models of melancholy into one easily readable (and affordable) overview makes this a useful starting point for student discussion, or for those with no particular background in the history of psychiatry. * Sarah Chaney, Social History of Medicine *
the incorporation of a large variety of ideas and models of melancholy into one easily readable (and affordable) overview makes this a useful starting point for student discussion, or for those with no particular background in the history of psychiatry. * Sarah Chaney, Social History of Medicine *
Clark Lawlor is Reader in English Literature at Northumbria University, and is especially interested in the cultural history of disease. He has been publishing work on the history and representation of depression recently, partly as a result of his co-Directorship of Before Depression, a Leverhulme Trust-funded project on the nature of depression in the eighteenth century. Before his interest in depression he published Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease (2006), which describes how consumption (tuberculosis) came to be such a glamorous disease by the nineteenth century.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199585793 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199585792 |
| Title | From Melancholia to Prozac |
| Author | Clark Lawlor |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2012-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 278 |
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