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Manic Minds: Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future

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Manic Minds: Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future - Hermsen, Lisa M, Professor
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Spanning several centuries, Manic Minds traces the multiple ways in which the word "mania" has been used by popular, medical, and academic writers. It reveals why the rhetorical history of the word is key to appreciating descriptions and meanings of the "manic episode." Lisa M. Hermsen examines the way medical professionals analyzed the manic condition during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and offers the first in-depth analysis of contemporary manic autobiographies: bipolar figures who have written from within the ...

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Manic Minds: Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future 2011, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813551579

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Manic Minds: Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future 2011, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813551586

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