Sadness or Depression International Perspectives on The Depression Epidemic and Its Meaning. PDF ebook E-BOOK

Sadness or Depression?: International Perspectives on the Depression Epidemic and Its Meaning

• (History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 15)
• 1st edition
• by Jerome C. Wakefield (Editor), Steeves Demazeux (Editor)

The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and predicts that by 2030 the epidemic of depression raging across the world will be the single biggest contributor to the overall burden of disease of all health conditions. Yet this gloomy picture masks a number of paradoxes concerning the diagnosis and cultural interpretation of depression that appear to challenge the claimed prevalence rates on which it is based. This book’s essays by some of the world’s leading researchers and scholars on depression explores these anomalies in detail from multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives, and in doing so reshapes the debate on the nature of depression that is currently under way in the US and abroad.