ANTH224 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 6: Paroxetine, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Fluoxetine
15 Apr 2019
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Watters, ethan the mega marketing of depression in japan. 187-248: The international consensus group on depression and anxiety. They were not trying to sell their drugs to us. They were interested in what we knew about how cultures shape the illness experience. More precisely, they wouldn"t want to accept the disease. "the people"s attitude toward depression was very negative, Japanese had a fundamentally different conception ofdepression than in the west, one that made it unlikely that a signi cant num- ber of people in japan would want to take a drug associated with the disease. For the small percentage of the population diagnosed with a debilitating mental illness, long hospital stays were the norm. The average stay in a mental hospital in japan was over a year, versus just ten days in the united states. Utsubyo, what it described was a mental illness that was as chronic and devastating as schizophrenia.
