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Author Brinkmann, Svend, author.

Title Diagnostic cultures : a cultural approach to the pathologization of modern life / Svend Brinkmann
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Classical and contemporary social theory
Classical and contemporary social theory.
Contents Introduction -- Introducing the concept of diagnostic cultures -- Psychiatric diagnoses as epistemic objects -- Languages of suffering -- Psychiatric diagnoses as semiotic mediators -- "Do more, feel better, live longer": being a psychiatric subject -- Interpreting the epidemics -- Towards a comprehensive understanding of mental disorder -- General conclusions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 21, 2016)
Subject Mental illness -- Diagnosis.
Social psychiatry.
Social psychology.
Mental Disorders -- diagnosis
Community Psychiatry
Psychology, Social
social psychology.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Mental illness -- Diagnosis
Social psychiatry
Social psychology
Form Electronic book
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