Your original face before your parents were born

[rachelmanija]

The New York Times magazine has an exceptionally thoughtful article, ostensibly on how the marketing of antidepressants in Japan has changed the Japanese perception of depression, but really about cultural perceptions of "illness" vs. "state of being." And much more. Unusually for general-interest articles on similar issues, it is not a hysterical diatribe about how medication is stealing our souls, nor does it ignore sociopolitical and philosophical issues in favor of a strict focus on biochemistry. Check it out.

It requires free registration if you haven't registered already, but who wouldn't want to be able to read the NY Times online?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/magazine/22DEPRESS.html?hp

Comments

[inaurolillium.livejournal.com]

Registering to read online papers tends to increase one's spam. bugemenot.com gives logins and passwords, though.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I've been registered at nytimes.com for about six years and never gotten a single email from them.

[larryhammer]

Ditto -- or any spam that can be traced to them.

---L.

[inaurolillium.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I'm merely giving one reason why people dislike subscribing in general.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

d00d, I was just about to rec that email to you, given the last entry -- also, have also been reg with the NYTimes for quite a while and don't think I've ever gotten any spam from them.

[tweedkitten.livejournal.com]

ny times and the washington post are the most widely circulated papers in the nation, but give me the la times and the oc weekly anyday. ^_~