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Genre/Form: | Personal Narrative Biography Autobiography Biographies Personal narratives Récits personnels |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jamison, Kay R. Unquiet mind. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1995 (OCoLC)604051335 |
Named Person: | Kay R Jamison; Kay R Jamison; Kay R Jamison; Kay R Jamison; Kay Redfield Jamison; Kay R Jamison; Kay R Jamison |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kay R Jamison |
ISBN: | 0679443746 9780679443742 9780679763307 0679763309 |
OCLC Number: | 32312965 |
Notes: | APPE gift. |
Description: | 223 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | The wild blue yonder -- A not so fine madness -- This medicine, love -- An unquiet mind. |
Responsibility: | Kay Redfield Jamison. |
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Abstract:
From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.
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