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296 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781421403977
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 01 October 2011
Description
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 civili...
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296 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781421403977
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 01 October 2011
Description
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 civili...