Drug advertisements and the medicalization of unipolar depression in women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15217414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur G Nikelly (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 229-242 |
| Publication date | 1995-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Care For Women International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07399339509516174 |
| PMID | 7797454 |
| OpenAlex | W2020400665 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 36 |
Unipolar depression occurs twice as frequently among women as among men, and the pharmacological industry maintains a massive advertising campaign that encourages psychiatric professionals to rely on antidepressant medication as the solution to this problem. The pictorial content of drug advertisements shows women as victims of depression. The social problems and situational stresses associated with unipolar depression are never shown, and depression is assumed to be a personal and biological illness, its etiology decontextualized. In these advertisements, women are not offered a choice between medical and nonmedical treatment and are not empowered to become more active participants in their health decisions. Therapists are urged to become alert to this oversimplification
Advertising · Antidepressant · Anxiety · Depression (economics · Drug treatment · Etiology · Illness behavior · Medical illness · Medicalization · Psychiatry · Situational ethics · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Medicine · Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Diffusion of New Generation Antidepressant Treatment Among Elderly Diagnosed With Depression
I'd rather not take Prozac
A Bitter Pill
Gender and outpatient mental health service use
Toward a new psychology of women
Causal explanations as a risk factor for depression
Advertising and psychotropic drugs
In the interest of the nation
On the AHCPR Depression in Primary Care guidelines
Dimensions of Family Relationships Associated with Depressive Symptomatology in Mothers of Young Children
Gender Differences in Depressive Symptoms
Sex differences in psychotropic drug use
Media images and medical images
Sex differences in the content and style of medical advertisements
Work role and depression in women
Cognitive therapy
The decontextualization of mental illness
The Stressfulness of Daily Social Roles for Women
Economic Predictors of Depressed Mood and Stressful Life Events in a Metropolitan Community
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2022 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |