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Depression and globalization : the politics of mental health in the 21st century

The text Walker reestablishes the link between mental health research and treatment, along with the political and economical influences outside the world of academic and clinical mental health.
Print Book, English, ©2008
Springer, New York, ©2008
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xv, 203 pages ; 25 cm
9780387727127, 0387727124
166358033
Depression
What is depression?
The stigma of depression: history and context
Globalization
The New Right and the 1980s
Globalization: definitions and debates
Mental Health
The structures of society and depression
The mental health sciences and the depression industry
Depression and the future
Subtitle on cover reads: The politics of mental health in the twenty-first century
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