Melancholia : The Western Malady
by
Matthew Bell
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107069963
ISBN-13
9781107069961
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 15th, 2014
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
460 grams
Dimensions
24.20 x 16.60 x 1.80 cms
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A unique explanation of melancholia, charting its fascinating history and demonstrating how it flourished because of the West's peculiar fascination with self-consciousness. This book will appeal to readers interested in the cultural history of the West, as well as those with an interest in mental illness.
Melancholia is a commonly experienced feeling, and one with a long and fascinating medical history which can be charted back to antiquity. Avoiding the simplistic binary opposition of constructivism and hard realism, this book argues that melancholia was a culture-bound syndrome which thrived in the West because of the structure of Western medicine since the Ancient Greeks, and because of the West''s fascination with self-consciousness. While melancholia cannot be equated with modern depression, Matthew Bell argues that concepts from recent depression research can shed light on melancholia. Within a broad historical panorama, Bell focuses on ancient medical writing, especially the little-known but pivotal Rufus of Ephesus, and on the medicine and culture of early modern Europe. Separate chapters are dedicated to issues of gender and cultural difference, and the final chapter offers a survey of melancholia in the arts, explaining the prominence of melancholia - especially in literature.
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