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Manic Minds - Hermsen, Lisa M
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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 analysed the manic condition during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and offers the first in-depth analysis of contemporary manic autobiographies.

Produktbeschreibung
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 analysed the manic condition during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and offers the first in-depth analysis of contemporary manic autobiographies.
Autorenporträt
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.