![]() ![]() His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit and erudition, award-winning author Solomon takes readers on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policymakers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by biological explanations for mental illness. The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications and treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations-around the world and throughout history. ![]() ![]() Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers, and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease as well as the reasons for hope. The Noonday Demon Among The Guardian ’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century The book’s combination of honesty, scholarly rigour and poetry made it a benchmark in literary memoir and understanding of mental health. The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. ![]()
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