{"product_id":"culture-and-depression-9780520058835","title":"Culture and Depression","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression. This book presents the work of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists who examine the controversies, agreements, and conceptual and methodological problems that arise in the course of such research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Culture and Depression\u003cbr\u003e Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. MEANINGS, RELATIONSHIPS, SOCIAL AFFECTS:\u003cbr\u003e HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL\u003cbr\u003e PERSPECTIVES  ON DEPRESSION\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Part I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Acedia the Sin and Its Relationship to Sorrow and Melancholia\u003cbr\u003e Stanley W. Jackson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Depression and the Translation of Emotional Worlds\u003cbr\u003e Catherine Lutz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Cultural Analysis of Depressive Affect: An Example from New Guinea\u003cbr\u003e Edward L. Schieffelin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Depression, Buddhism, and the Work of Culture in Sri Lanka\u003cbr\u003e Gananath Obeyesekere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Interpretive Basis of Depression\u003cbr\u003e Charles F. Keyes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II DEPRESSIVE COGNITION, COMMUNICATION, AND BEHAVIOR\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Part\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6.Menstrual Pollution, Soul Loss, and the Comparative Study of Emotions\u003cbr\u003e Richard A. Shweder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Dimensions of Dysphoria: The View from Linguistic Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e William 0. Beeman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Theoretical Implications of Converging Research on Depression and the\u003cbr\u003e Culture-Bound Syndromes\u003cbr\u003e John E. Carr and Peter P. Vitaliano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT OF DEPRESSNE DISORDERS CROSS-CULTURALLY\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Part III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. A Study of Depression among Traditional Africans, Urban North Americans,\u003cbr\u003e and Southeast Asian Refugees\u003cbr\u003e Morton Beiser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Cross-Cultural Studies of Depressive Disorders: An Overview\u003cbr\u003e Anthony J. Marsella, Norman Sartorius,\u003cbr\u003e Assen Jablensky, and Fred R. Fenton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV INTEGRATIONS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRIC ANTHROPOLOGY\u003cbr\u003e OF DEPRESSWE DISORDERS\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Part IV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Depressive Experience in American Indian Communities:\u003cbr\u003e A Challenge for Psychiatric Theory and Diagnosis\u003cbr\u003e Spero M. Manson, James H. Shore,\u003cbr\u003e and Joseph D. Bloom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Interpretation of Iranian Depressive Illness and Dysphoric Affect\u003cbr\u003e Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good,\u003cbr\u003e and Robert Moradi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture,\u003cbr\u003e Depressive Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain\u003cbr\u003e Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Culture and Depression\u003cbr\u003e Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Indexes\u003cbr\u003e Author Index\u003cbr\u003e Subject Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402791067991,"sku":"9780520058835","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520058835.jpg?v=1730481524","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/culture-and-depression-9780520058835","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}