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An unquiet mind, Kay Redfield Jamison

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition
Extent
223 pages
Note
APPE gift.
Contents
  • The wild blue yonder
  • A not so fine madness
  • This medicine, love
  • An unquiet mind
Isbn
9780679763307
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An unquiet mind
Title
An unquiet mind
Statement of responsibility
Kay Redfield Jamison
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
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Jamison, Kay R
Dewey number
616.895
Index
no index present
LC call number
RC516
LC item number
.J363 1995
Literary form
non fiction
NLM call number
  • 1995 H-853
  • WZ 100
NLM item number
J32 1995
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Jamison, Kay R.
  • People with bipolar disorder
  • Women college teachers
  • Jamison, Kay R
  • Manic-depressive persons
  • Mental health
  • Women college teachers
  • United States
Label
An unquiet mind, Kay Redfield Jamison
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Publication
Note
APPE gift.
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The wild blue yonder -- A not so fine madness -- This medicine, love -- An unquiet mind
Control code
ocm32312965
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition
Extent
223 pages
Isbn
9780679763307
Lccn
95014273
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
An unquiet mind, Kay Redfield Jamison
Publication
Note
APPE gift.
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The wild blue yonder -- A not so fine madness -- This medicine, love -- An unquiet mind
Control code
ocm32312965
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition
Extent
223 pages
Isbn
9780679763307
Lccn
95014273
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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