Book Review: Rose on Hermsen. Manic Minds: Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future
Lisa M. Hermsen. Manic Minds: Mania's Mad History and Its
Neuro-Future. New Brunswick Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Illustrations. xiii + 154 pp. $69.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-8135-5157-9; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8135-5158-6.
Reviewed by Lynn Rose (Truman State University)
Published on H-Disability (August, 2014)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Published on H-Disability (August, 2014)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Multiplicities of Mania
Manic Minds is a single-authored book consisting of five
chapters.
The chapters are framed by an introduction that takes the book's
subtitle, "Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future," and an epilogue
called "A Mad, Mad World." Lisa M. Hermsen explores terms used to
describe "mania," especially the "manic episode," in nineteenth- and
twentieth-century American, British, and European writing; discusses
the present state of terminology and its implications; and
contemplates present and future combinations of psychiatry and
technology.
The chapters are framed by an introduction that takes the book's
subtitle, "Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future," and an epilogue
called "A Mad, Mad World." Lisa M. Hermsen explores terms used to
describe "mania," especially the "manic episode," in nineteenth- and
twentieth-century American, British, and European writing; discusses
the present state of terminology and its implications; and
contemplates present and future combinations of psychiatry and
technology.