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Old Black Cloud : A Cultural History Of Mental Depression Inaotearoa New Zealand
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Old Black Cloud : A Cultural History Of Mental Depression Inaotearoa New Zealand
Paperback Edition: 1
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.
Pages : 312
Publisher : Massey University Press
Publication date : 2024-06-13
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in New Zealand, Humanities, Medicine, Health And Personal Development, New Zealand, History, Health, NZ History, NZ Social Services & Welfare, Criminology, Australasian & Pacific History, Popular Medicine & Health