A compreensão da depressão na população pobre, uma ocorrência mais (fortemente) social, do que uma doença (fracamente) clínica

The widespread increase of depression points to social causes and means that this “disease” moves from medical to social field. Studied as a social event, the variety and scope of the meanings of depression appear when the disease is analysed on the background of the society. The emergence of a new common sense, wich emerges from social relationships, begins to receive specialised attention. Recent studies of this new connotation, published in the field of medical anthropology, highlight the existence of a new connotation to the term depression and the peculiarities of its operation in urban Brazil