Multitudinous factors have given rise to the supposed epidemic of depression and anxiety.
The medical literature relating to this phenomenon primarily focuses on a biomedical viewpoint, often looking at genetic predispositions and brains stimulation as the primary origins of depression and anxiety (Summerfield 2006).
However, a sociological outlook is fundamental when exploring the context of depression and anxiety as a whole, because the biomedical reductionist viewpoint not only reduces this complex topic to a cause, but it also poses that there is something wrong with the individual thus can be ‘fixed’ or treated (Wade 2004). A sociological perspective instead focuses on how health and illness are viewed, shaped and influenced by the way
The medical literature relating to this phenomenon primarily focuses on a biomedical viewpoint, often looking at genetic predispositions and brains stimulation as the primary origins of depression and anxiety (Summerfield 2006).
However, a sociological outlook is fundamental when exploring the context of depression and anxiety as a whole, because the biomedical reductionist viewpoint not only reduces this complex topic to a cause, but it also poses that there is something wrong with the individual thus can be ‘fixed’ or treated (Wade 2004). A sociological perspective instead focuses on how health and illness are viewed, shaped and influenced by the way