Bipolar expeditions : mania and depression in American culture / Emily Martin.
"Anthropologist Emily Martin guides us into the worlds of mental-health support groups, mood charts, psychiatric rounds, the pharmaceutical industry, and psychotropic drugs. Charting how these worlds intersect with the wider popular culture, she reveals how people living under the description of bipolar disorder are often denied the status of being fully human, even while contemporary America exhibits a powerful affinity for manic behavior. Mania, Martin shows, has come to be regarded as a distant frontier that invites exploration because it seems to offer fame and profits to pioneers, while depression is imagined as something that should be eliminated altogether with the help of drugs." "Bipolar Expeditions argues that mania and depression have a cultural life outside the confines of diagnosis, that the experiences of people living with bipolar disorder belong fully to the human condition, and that even the most so-called rational everyday practices are intertwined with irrational ones."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN: 9780691004235 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0691004234 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xxiv, 370 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-362) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface : ethnographic ways and means -- Introduction : manic depression in America -- Pt. 1. Manic depression as experience -- Ch. 1. Personhood and emotion -- Ch. 2. Performing the "rationality" of "irrationality" -- Ch. 3. Managing mania and depression -- Ch. 4. I now pronounce you manic depressive -- Ch. 5. Inside the diagnosis -- Ch. 6. Pharmaceutical personalities -- Pt. 2. Mania as a resource -- Ch. 7. Taking the measure of moods and motivations -- Ch. 8. Revaluing mania -- Ch. 9. Manic markets -- Conclusion : the bipolar condition. |
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Subject: | Anthropology, Cultural > United States. Manic-depressive illness > Social aspects > United States. Bipolar Disorder > United States. Medical anthropology > United States. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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VIU Library - Nanaimo Campus | RC 516 M382 2007 (Text) | M011317981 | STACKS | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-08-15 11:59pm |