David Allen Karp

Broschiertes Buch

Speaking of Sadness

Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness, Updated and Expanded Edition

Beschreibung

Speaking of Sadness, based on fifty in-depth interviews, provides first-hand accounts of the depression experience while discovering clear regularities in the ways that personal identities are shaped over the course of an "illness career."

Autor

David A. Karp, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Boston College where he taught for 42 years. He has written or co-authored ten books and more than fifty journal articles and book chapters. His work appears in such periodicals as Symbolic Interaction, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Qualitative Health Research, the Gerontologist, and the International Journal of Aging and Human Development. His work has largely clustered in three areas: urban life and culture, aging, and the study of mental health and illness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780190260965
• ISBN-10: 0190260963
• Artikelnr.: 47863686