He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by biological explanations for mental illness. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications and treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations-around the world and throughout history. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers, and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease as well as the reasons for hope. The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomons National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression-the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening (Time)-now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants, pregnancy and depression, and much more. Su contribucin a nuestro entendimiento de la enfermedad mental y de la condicin humana es asombrosa. El libro asume el reto de explicar la depresin y describe el amplio abanico de medicamentos disponibles, la eficacia de las terapias alternativas y el impacto que la enfermedad ha tenido en distintas sociedades a lo largo de la historia. Solomon explora el fenmeno a partir de su propia lucha contra la enfermedad y de entrevistas con otros enfermos, mdicos, cientficos, polticos, farmaclogos y filsofos as revela la sutil complejidad y la intensa agona que definen a este mal. El demonio de la depresin es una obra fundamental para la comprensin de esta patologa. Book Synopsis Intenligente, emptico y repleto de conocimientos sobre el tema, Solomon ha construido una ventana iluminadora y sensata sobre la idea mdica y la imagen de la depresin.- Publisher Weekly.
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