Name: Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents: Anxiety, Depression and Alzheimer’S Disease (The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization)
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Author: Kieran Keohane; Anders Petersen; Bert Van Den Bergh
ISBN: 9781138364448

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Physical Book

Publisher

Routledge

Author

Kieran Keohane; Anders Petersen; Bert Van Den Bergh

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

124

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781138364448

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Synopsis "Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents: Anxiety, Depression and Alzheimer’S Disease (The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization)"

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.

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