Describing depression: Ethnicity and the use of somatic imagery in accounts of mental distress

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 857-871

  Mallinson, Sara ^a   Popay, Jennie ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Mental distress; Metaphors; Narratives

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX RATIO; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 35748935076     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01048.x     Document Type: Article

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