Sites of Somatic Subjectivity: E-scaped Mental Health Promotion and the Biopolitics of Depression

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 323-341

  Fullagar, Simone ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depression websites; Gender; Governmentality; Mental health promotion; Somatic subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 69649107876     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2008.7     Document Type: Article

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