Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. In a nation that has traditionally been uncomfortable addressing mental illness, what factors have allowed for the rising medicalization of depression and suicide? Investigating these profound changes from historical, clinical, and s...(展开全部)

An authoritative guide to understanding and treating depression in the medically ill Depression in Medical Illness is based on the fact that depression and medical illness are inextricably bound together and must be viewed through a single lens in order to truly understand, diagnose, and treat them. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize not simply a critical distillation a...(展开全部)

Made in Japan -- Made in Japan—these three simple words conjure playful wit, a delight in detail, formal elegance, and graphic energy. Author of Made in China, Reed Darmon has collected hundreds of images of everyday Japanese design and pop culture ephemera from the past century. Including perfume ads, art deco matchboxes, robot toys, action movie posters, Noh masks, kimono pat...(展开全部)

This book addresses very topical issues being raised in the public agenda and the media - relating directly to our government and its obsession with security and border control and the more global effect of capitalism and the social consequences of this trend. Socio-political thesis explores the effects of politically induced neo-liberal anxiety on White Australian society. 'Wh...(展开全部)

After his research experiences in China, Kleinman concluded thatneurasthenia was best understood clinically when it was regarded as a“biculturally patterned illness experience (a special form ofsomatization), related to depression or other diseases or to culturallysanctioned idioms of distress and psychosocialcoping

凯博文教授是世界一流的医疗人类学家，在文化精神病学、全球健康、社会医学等方面也享有重要地位。凯博文教授任教于哈佛大学文理学院人类学系，任该系Esther andSidney Rabb人类学讲座教授，并在2004年至2007年间担任该系系主任;1999年至2000年间担任哈佛医学院社会医学系系主任;1993年至2002年间担任哈佛医学院 Maude andLillian Presley讲座教授。目前他是哈佛大学亚洲研究中心Victor and William Fung荣誉主任。 凯博文教授著有六本专著，主持或合作主持过28个专栏及期刊，进行了200多项研究。他的主要著作有：《文化语境下的病人与医生》、《苦痛和疾病的社会根源：现代中国的抑郁、神经衰弱和病痛》、《探病说痛：人类的受苦经验和痊愈之道》、《对精神病学的再思考》、《文化和忧郁》（合著）、《社会苦...(展开全部)

This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. 'How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it ... Masterly.' Neil MacGregor It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Ja...(展开全部)

This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. 'How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it ... Masterly.' Neil MacGregor It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Ja...(展开全部)

For junior/senior-level courses in Religion and Society in departments of Sociology and Religious Studies. Using an unbiased, balanced approach, the 8th edition of this text puts religion in its social context by discussing the impact of society on religion and helps students understand the role and function of religion in society that occur regardless of anyone's claims about ...(展开全部)