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Melancholia - The Western Malady (Hardcover)
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Melancholia - The Western Malady (Hardcover)
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Melancholia is a commonly experienced feeling, and one with a long
and fascinating medical history that can be charted back to
antiquity. Avoiding the simplistic binary opposition of
constructivism and hard realism, this book argues that melancholia
was a culture-bound syndrome which thrived in the West because of
the structure of Western medicine since the Ancient Greeks, and
because of the West's fascination with self-consciousness. Whilst
melancholia cannot be equated with modern depression, Matthew Bell
argues that concepts from recent depression research can shed light
on melancholia. Within a broad historical panorama, Bell focuses on
ancient medical writing, especially the little-known but pivotal
Rufus of Ephesus, and on the medicine and culture of early modern
Europe. Separate chapters are dedicated to issues of gender and
cultural difference, and the final chapter offers a survey of
melancholia in the arts, explaining the prominence of melancholia -
especially in literature.
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