Old Black Cloud : A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1991016727
ISBN-13
9781991016720
Publisher
Massey University Press
Imprint
Massey University Press
Country of Manufacture
CN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 13th, 2024
Print length
312 Pages
Weight
504 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 16.40 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
Care of the mentally illHistory of medicine
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Mental depression is a serious issue in contemporary New Zealand, and it has an increasingly high profile. But during our history, depression has often been hidden under a long black cloud of denial that we have not always lived up to the Kiwi ideal of being pragmatic and have not always coped.Using historic patient records as a starting place, and informed by her own experience of depression, academic Jacqueline Leckie s timely social history of depression in Aotearoa analyses its medical, cultural and social contexts through an historical lens. From detailing its links to melancholia and explaining its expression within Indigenous and migrant communities, this engrossing book interrogates how depression was medicalised and has been treated, and how New Zealanders have lived with it.
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