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A Sociological Analysis of Depression in China

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-6471-0

ISBN: 978-981-15-6470-3

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Sep 11, 2020

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How Depression Arises: A Sociological Questioning and a Methodological Reflection

Hsiao, I-Hsin

Pages: 1 –32

[The World Health Organization issued a warning to all countries in its 2000 “Global Burden of Diseases” report, stating that depression will rank second in terms of its global health priority in 2020, just after ischemic heart disease. According to the 2010 GBD study, depressive disorder now...
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Analysis of the Production Side: Depression in Drastic Space Changes

Hsiao, I-Hsin

Pages: 41 –59

[We have mentioned the flexible accumulation in post-Fordist economies brought about by neoliberal globalization and the mobility at work, which allows laborers to move across regions geographically at any time. The drastic space changes derived highlight the following problems.]
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Analysis of the Production Side: Depression in Drastic Time Changes

Hsiao, I-Hsin

Pages: 61 –78

[After analyzing the spatial changes, we will come to the sociological analysis of temporal alterations. The drastic changes of time in neoliberal globalization are related to a logic of “competitiveness” which emphasizes fast speed.]
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Analysis of the Consumption Side: Socio-Psychological Context of Depression

Hsiao, I-Hsin

Pages: 79 –99

[The occurrence of depression is correlated with social and psychological factors. In this chapter we will explore how the occurrence of depression is affected by the common modern psychological process of individualization, the narcissistic society, and the democratization of intimate relations,...
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Depression in Capitalist Discourse: A Lacanian Psychoanalytical Interpretation

Hsiao, I-Hsin

Pages: 101 –136

[In the previous three chapters, we have analyzed the social structure of depression in view of the changes in its production and consumption brought about by neoliberal globalization. This chapter will analyze the social structure of depression from the psychoanalytical perspective.]
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Medicalization of Depression by the Production-Government-Academia-Media Complex

Hsiao, I-Hsin

Pages: 139 –149

[The analysis of the “social structure” of depression reveals that the social upheaval in neoliberal globalization leads to the occurrence of depression.]
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The Public’s Cognition and Conceptualization of Depression

Hsiao, I-Hsin

Pages: 151 –169

[The previous chapter demonstrated that the construction of depression by the manufacturers, the government, academia and the media is a social construction from the supply side of health care. In this chapter we explain the social construction from the demand side.]
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Conclusion: A Sociological Analysis of Depression in China

Hsiao, I-Hsin

Pages: 171 –178

[After the explanations and analyses in the previous seven chapters, let us return to the question raised in Chap. 1: “In spite of the continuous increase of depression patients, why is the lifetime prevalence of depression in China so low by international comparison?” This book has tried to...

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