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vii CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Depression and Gender in the Age of Self-Care 1 1 Depression, a Rhetorical Illness 13 2 Articulate Depression: The Discursive Legacy of Biological Psychiatry 34 3 Strategic Imprecision and the Self-Doctoring Drive 63 4 Isolating Words: Metaphors That Shape Depression’s Identities 94 5 Telling Stories of Depression: Models for the Gendered Self 122 6 Diagnostic Genres and the Reconfiguring of Medical Expertise 155 Conclusion: Toward a Rhetorical Care of the Self 180 Notes 189 Index 209 ...

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