# The Noonday Demon

**Author(s):** Andrew Solomon
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**Genres:** historical-fiction, literary-fiction, psychology, biography
**Pages:** 576
**Publisher:** Albin Michel
**Published:** Mon Jan 01 2001 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780743523219
**ISBN-10:** 0743523210
**ASIN:** B005UDIB94
**Amazon categories:** Health, Fitness & Dieting > Mental Health > Depression
**Amazon binding:** $17.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-noonday-demon

## Description

The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. 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. 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. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by biological explanations for mental illness. 

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. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning.

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**Themes:** Quest / Journey, Mental Illness