Manic Minds
Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future
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2011
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-5157-9 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
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From its first depictions in ancient medical literature to contemporary depictions in brain imaging, mania has been largely associated with its Greek roots, "to rage." Prior to the nineteenth century, "mania" was used interchangeably with "madness." Although its meanings shifted over time, the word remained layered with the type of madness first-century writers described: rage, fury, frenzy. Even now, the mental illness we know as bipolar disorder describes conditions of extreme irritability, inflated grandiosity, and excessive impulsivity.
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 illness itself.
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 illness itself.
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.
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
Zusatzinfo | 12 photographs |
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Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8135-5157-9 / 0813551579 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-5157-9 / 9780813551579 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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