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Diagnostic Cultures: A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life

Diagnostic Cultures: A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life

Hardcover

Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1472413199
ISBN13: 9781472413192
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 6 2016
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Drawing on new empirical case studies of psychological diagnoses, including depression and ADHD, and employing both cultural-psychological and sociological analyses, Diagnostic Cultures charts the development of contemporary diagnostic cultures and asks whether, in transforming existential, moral and political concerns into individual psychiatric disorders, we risk losing sight of the larger historical and social forces that affect our lives. A ground-breaking examination of the shift towards the pathologization of suffering and the dangers that this presents to human self-understanding, Diagnostic Cultures will be of interest to scholars of social theory and philosophy, the sociology of culture, psychology and the sociology health and medicine.

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