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Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder

Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder

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ISBN10: 0822336103
ISBN13: 9780822336105
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Mar 1 2006
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic. Jackie Orr looks at instances of panic and its cures in the twentieth-century United States: from the mass hysteria following the 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds to an individual woman swallowing a pill to control the panic disorder officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980. Against a backdrop of Cold War anxieties over atomic attack, Orr highlights the entanglements of knowledge and power in efforts to reconceive panic and its prevention as problems in communication and information feedback. Throughout, she reveals the shifting techniques of power and social engineering underlying the ways that scientific and social scientific discourses--including crowd psychology, Cold War cybernetics, and contemporary psychiatry--have rendered panic an object of technoscientific management.

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