Depression and Globalization The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century /

• Main Author: Walker, Carl (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Health administration.; Health psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Health Psychology.; Health Administration.

In the coming years the World Health Organization predicts that depression will rank just behind heart conditions in terms of the global disease burden. Yet, according to a provocative new book, mental health systems often reinforce the depressive disorders they aim to treat. In Depression and Globa...

Table of Contents:

• Depression
• What Is Depression?
• The Stigma of Depression: History and Context
• Globalization
• The New Right and the 1980s
• Globalization: Definitions and Debates
• Mental Health
• The Structures of Society and Depression
• The Mental Health Sciences and the Depression Industry
• Depression and the Future.