THE WORRIED WELL : The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows (Quarterly Essay, Issue 18)

by Bell, Gail

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Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc, Schwartz Publishing, 2005. 121pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed (small front cover image; author photo to rear) card wrapper as new. In the second 'Quarterly Essay' of 2005, author Gail Bell investigates "Australia's depression epidemic. Why, she wonders, do well over a million Australians now take antidepressant drugs? . . . In this free-ranging and elegant essay, Bell takes the pulse of Australia's 'worried well' and looks at alternative cures for what ails us." Plus: Correspondence- 'Kangaroo Court', Elizabeth Evatt & Richard Chisholm, Peter Ryan, Alastair Nicholson, Bettina Arndt, Joanna Fletcher & Allyson Foster, Justin Dowd, Liz Olle, Barry Maley, Diana Bryant, John Hirst. Book weight approx. 240g. PLEASE NOTE: LISTED BOOKS ARE NOT STORED AT SHOP PREMISES. DIGITAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Softcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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