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Author:   Lisa M. Hermsen
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9780813551586

ISBN 10:   0813551587
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   22 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Mania’s Mad History and Its Neuro-Future 1. Mania Multiplies with Fury: Textbook Descriptions of the Psychopathology 2. The Maniac and the Iconography of Reform 3. Midwestern Mania: Genetics in the Heartland 4. Manic Lives: Mad Memoirs 5. Neuropsychiatry, Pharmacology, and Imaging the New Mania Epilogue: A Mad, Mad World Notes Bibliography Index

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Bringing together current science studies concepts and the social history of mental illness, Lisa Hermsen provides an innovative approach to mania as a dynamic, rhetorical and material figure. --Janet Wirth-Cauchon Women and Borderline Personality Disorder: Symptoms and Stories In this wonderfully smart and lively account of mania/bipolar disorder, Lisa Hermsen explores the rhetorical history and multiple realities of a 'mental disorder' haunted by its insistent ties to madness.--Jackie Orr Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder (07/29/2011)

Bringing together current science studies concepts and the social history of mental illness, Lisa Hermsen provides an innovative approach to mania as a dynamic, rhetorical and material figure. --Janet Wirth-Cauchon Women and Borderline Personality Disorder: Symptoms and Stories

Author Information

LISA M. HERMSEN is an associate professor in the English department at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she teaches courses in the rhetoric of science and the history of madness.

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