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Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder
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Jackie Orr (Author)
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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.Orr, who has experienced panic attacks herself, kept a diary of her participation as a research subject in clinical trials for the Upjohn Company's anti-anxiety drug Xanax. This "panic diary" grounds her study and suggests the complexity of her desire to track the diffusion and regulation of panic in U.S. society. Orr's historical research, theoretical reflections, and biographical narrative combine in this remarkable and compelling genealogy, which documents the manipulation of panic by the media, the social sciences and psychiatry, the U.S. military and government, and transnational drug companies. 14 illus.
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Jackie Orr is Associate Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University.
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- Contributor: Jackie Orr
- Imprint: Duke University Press
- ISBN13: 9780822336105
- Number of Pages: 376
- Packaged Weight: 658
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Release Date: 2006-03-01
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Jackie Orr is Associate Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University.
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