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<p><p>that Conceptual Entity &#151; And Thus Lived Reality &#151; We Call Bipolar Disease Today Is Peculiarly A Product Of Our World. It Is A World In Which Reductionist Notions Of Disease Have Come To Dominate Our Way Of Thinking About Sickness. It Is A World Of Bureaucratic Categories And Psychopharmaceutical Practice. It Is A World Created In Part By The Laboratory's Accomplishments, But It Is Also A Social World Shaped In Part By Mass Media And Advertising, By Corporate Strategies And Government Policies. And, As Is Illustrated By Highly Visible Contemporary Debates Over The Problematic Increase Of Bipolar Diagnoses In Children, It Is Shaped As Well By The Public Contestation Of Such Clinical Judgments &#151; Decisions That Are In Theory Individual, Private, And Objective.</p><p>it Is In This Multidimensional Sense That The Subject Of David Healy's Biography Exists Outside The Bodies And Emotions Of Any Particular Man, Woman, Or Child. But These Aggregated Social, Cultural, And Institutional Realities Can And Do Intrude Into Very Real Bodies And Minds. Healy Never Lets Us Forget The Men, Women, And Children Who Feel Emotional Pain And Incapacity No Matter How Much Such Disquiet

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Author

David Healy

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801888229

Category

history

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, History

Rating

3.59 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14