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Black dogs and blue words : depression and gender in the age of self-care /

Title
Black dogs and blue words : depression and gender in the age of self-care / Kimberly K. Emmons.
Author
Emmons, Kimberly, 1972-
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.

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Description
xii, 213 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Depression in women
  • Mental illness in mass media
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780813547206 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0813547202 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2009021737
  • 3155883
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library