This episode we return to our ongoing series on genetic research and sociology inspired by our Summer 2009 feature article on the topic (take a listen to our interview with Thomas Bouchard to hear our first discussion). This time we engage with a slightly different “socio-cultural” perspective and invited sociologist Allan Horwitz to give us his take on how this new science of the gene may medicalize new syndromes. Horwitz also talks about his new controversial book The Loss of Sadness, an examination of the medicalization of depression.
Also in this episode, Jeremy Minyard shares a discovery on corporate deviance and legitimacy.
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Allan Horwitz on the Medicalization of Depression | Mind of Modernity — February 9, 2010
[...] few weeks ago a friend of mine sent me a link to a podcast interview with sociologist Allan Horwitz, author of a book called The Loss of Sadness [...]
A response to Sally Satel's review of 'The Loss of Sadness' | Mind of Modernity — February 24, 2010
[...] book seems to argue (as Horwitz stated in the contexts interview) that there are two types of real depression. 1. Depression that appears without cause or context, [...]