Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents - Anxiety, Depression and Alzheimer's Disease (Hardcover)

This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer's disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimer's are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book addresses questions of how these conditions are manifest at both the individual and collective levels in relation to hegemonic biomedical and psychologistic understandings. Rejecting such reductive diagnoses, the authors argue that anxiety, depression and Alzheimer's disease, as well as other contemporary epidemics, are to be analysed in the light of individual and collective experiences of profound and radical changes in our civilization. A diagnosis of our times, Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents will appeal to a broad range of scholars with interests in health and illness, the sociology of medicine and contemporary life.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization
Release date:	March 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Kieran Keohane • Anders Petersen • Bert van den Bergh
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	114
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-21393-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General
LSN:	1-138-21393-4
Barcode:	9781138213937

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