Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder
Author(s): Greg de Moore; Ann Westmore
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Greg de Moore is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry based at Sydney's Westmead Hospital. Born in Melbourne of parents who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka, Greg has lived in Sydney for over 20 years. Outside of the hospital he has combined his medical interests with Australian history to write and co-write two previous books - Tom Wills and A National Game. The biography of Tom Wills was based on ten years of research unearthing original medical records, letters, text books and notes previously believed to have been lost or destroyed. This book was short-listed for and won numerous awards, including the National Biography Award. Greg has also written on the need to preserve psychiatric records as a precious storehouse of clinical and social history...Ann Westmore is an Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Health and Society, School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. She came to the history of medicine and science through a degree in science and a previous career as a medical writer for a mass circulation newspaper. After completing a Master of Science in the history and philosophy of science, Ann completed a PhD titled 'Mind, Mania and Science: Psychiatry and the Culture of Experiment in Mid-Twentieth Century Victoria'. Her thesis gave rise to work with Museum Victoria and the University of Melbourne investigating nineteenth and twentieth century mental health care in Australia...
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- : Allen & Unwin
- : Allen & Unwin
- : 0.4672
- : 01 August 2016
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : Australia
- : 01 September 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Greg de Moore; Ann Westmore
- : Paperback
- : Main
- : English
- : 336
- : 8pp bw photos