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Black dogs and blue words : depression and gender in the age of self-care / Kimberly K. Emmons.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813549224
  • 0813549221
  • 0813547202
  • 9780813547206
  • 1282562436
  • 9781282562431
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black dogs and blue words.DDC classification:
  • 616.85/270082 22
LOC classification:
  • RC537 .E46 2010eb
NLM classification:
  • WM 171
Online resources:
Contents:
Depression, a rhetorical illness -- Articulate depression : the discursive legacy of biological psychiatry -- Strategic imprecision and the self-doctoring drive -- Isolating words : metaphors that shape depression's identities -- Telling stories of depression : models for the gendered self -- Diagnostic genres and the reconfiguring of medical expertise -- Conclusion : toward a rhetorical care of the self.
Summary: 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 Food and Drug Administration changed its guidelines for the marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals. Black Dogs and Blue Words analyzes the rhetoric surrounding depression. Kimberly K. Emmons maintains that the techniques and language of depression marketing strategies - vague words s.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Depression, a rhetorical illness -- Articulate depression : the discursive legacy of biological psychiatry -- Strategic imprecision and the self-doctoring drive -- Isolating words : metaphors that shape depression's identities -- Telling stories of depression : models for the gendered self -- Diagnostic genres and the reconfiguring of medical expertise -- Conclusion : toward a rhetorical care of the self.

Print version record.

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 Food and Drug Administration changed its guidelines for the marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals. Black Dogs and Blue Words analyzes the rhetoric surrounding depression. Kimberly K. Emmons maintains that the techniques and language of depression marketing strategies - vague words s.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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