TY  - JOUR
T1  - American melancholy: Constructions of depression in the twentieth century
AU  - Fleisher MH
Y1  - 2010/08/25
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2010.1211
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 907
EP  - 908
VL  - 304
IS  - 8
N2  - 
In American Melancholy, medical historian and psychiatrist Laura Hirshbein has written an interesting, useful, and exceptionally readable review of the evolution of the idea of depression as a diagnosis in the United States, demonstrating how this seemingly narrow topic has broader implications regarding research, social identification, and clinical care when gender has been one of the basic elements. I did not find this work aggressively critical, as could easily have been the case. Using her expertise as a clinician and historian, the author has brought together overviews of various topics that the reader may find compelling or enlightening.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.1211
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.1211
ER  -