Medical models and metaphors for depression

What is it about?

The idea of treating depression as a diagnosis is sometimes criticized as being too much of a biomedical approach. However, the "biomedical approach" is rarely defined and biomedicine has many differing concepts of health and disease. There seem to be several types of biomedical models for depression - often seeming to take the form of metaphors alluding to other more well-defined disease entities. I wrote this paper in an effort to at least articulate those models/metaphors.

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