Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents

Name: Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Late Modern Subjectivity and its DiscontentsAnxiety, Depression and Alzheimers Disease\nAuthor(s): Kieran Keohane, Anders Petersen, Bert van den Bergh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138364448, 978-1138364448\nSynopsis\nThis book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimers disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimers are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society.\n\nMultidisciplinary in approach, the book addresses questions of how these conditions .