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