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An unquiet mind

Author: Kay R Jamison
Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Autobiography
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
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Kay R Jamison
ISBN: 0679443746 9780679443742
OCLC Number: 32312965
Description: 223 p. ; 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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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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