Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy

Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder

Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease

David Healy

320 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology informative slow-paced
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This provocative history of bipolar disorder illuminates how perceptions of illness, if not the illnesses themselves, are mutable over time. Beginning with the origins of the concept of mania—and the term maniac—in ancient Greek and Roman civiliza...

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