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“That Most Dreadful of All Human Calamities”: Bipolar Bodyminds in the Early United States

Timothy Kent Holliday // In the scant historiography of bipolar disorder, David Healy’s Mania stands out almost by default. The central premise of Healy’s book is one that most historians and medical humanities scholars would probably agree with: that disease is made, and that disease-making is a historical process. Healy explains in his conclusion: “Whatever view we…

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