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Author Martin, Emily.

Title Bipolar expeditions : mania and depression in American culture / Emily Martin.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
©2007

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  616.895 M379B    Check Shelf
Description xxiv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-362) and index.
Contents Personhood and emotion -- Performing the "rationality" of "irrationality" -- Managing mania and depression -- I now pronounce you manic depressive -- Inside the diagnosis -- Pharmaceutical personalities -- Taking the measure of moods and motivations -- Revaluing mania -- Manic markets.
Summary Publisher description for 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 Vincent Van Gogh and movie stars like Robin Williams. Bipolar Expeditions seeks to understand mania's appeal and how it weighs on the lives of Americans diagnosed with manic depression. Anthropologist Emily Martin guides us into the fascinating and sometimes disturbing 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.
Subject Bipolar disorder -- Social aspects -- United States.
Medical anthropology -- United States.
Bipolar Disorder -- United States.
Anthropology, Cultural -- United States.
Manisch-depressive Krankheit.
Kulturanthropologie.
United States.
ISBN 9780691004235 alkaline paper
0691004234 alkaline paper
9780691141060 paperback
0691141061 paperback
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