Difference-makers in human affective distress: perspectives on causation and recovery gained from qualitative inquiry into lived experience

The biomedical conceptualisation of “depression” as a disease entity stems from biological science rooted in a 17th century paradigm, and is an inappropriately positivist idea which discounts individual agency, disregards social context underscored in the descriptive epidemiology, fails to accommoda...

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Main Author: Steur, Thomas Lieven
Other Authors: Bruce, Sharon G. (Community Health Sciences)
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32219