Bipolar Expeditions : : Mania and Depression in American Culture / / Emily Martin.
Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the source of the creativity of artists like Vinc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 19 halftones. 6 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface: Ethnographic Ways and Means
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. Manic Depression in America
- PART ONE. Manic Depression as Experience
- CHAPTER ONE. Personhood and Emotion
- CHAPTER TWO. Performing the "Rationality" of "Irrationality"
- CHAPTER THREE. Managing Mania and Depression
- CHAPTER FOUR. I Now Pronounce You Manic Depressive
- CHAPTER FIVE. Inside the Diagnosis
- CHAPTER SIX. Pharmaceutical Personalities
- PART TWO. Mania as a Resource
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Taking the Measure of Moods and Motivations
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Revaluing Mania
- CHAPTER NINE. Manic Markets
- CONCLUSION. The Bipolar Condition
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index