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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 21, 2016)