Lisa M Hermsen

Manic Minds

Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future

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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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 273g
• ISBN-13: 9780813551586
• ISBN-10: 0813551587
• Artikelnr.: 33770604

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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