Bipolar Expeditions

Author: Emily Martin
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B006CQ5D4Y
Category: Medical

Bipolar Expeditions

Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. Download Bipolar Expeditions medical books for free.
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 pop Get Bipolar Expeditions our bestseller medical books.

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