Melancholia : the Western malady /

Melancholia is a commonly experienced feeling, and one with a long and fascinating medical history that 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...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Bell, Matthew, 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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