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Panic Diaries : A Genealogy of Panic Disorder /

Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic. Jackie Orr looks at instances of panic and its "cures" in the twentieth-century United States: from the mas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Orr, Jackie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2006]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • One. History, Memory, Story: Openings
  • Two. The Martian in the Machine: Panic Theory and Theaters of War
  • Three. ''Keep Calm!'' for the Cold War: Diary of a Mental Patient
  • Four. Performing Methods: Cybernetics, Psychopharmacology, and Postwar Psychiatry
  • Five. Panic Xanax: A Patient Diary
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index