Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder
“Jackie Orr is one of sociology’s most inventive theorists. Here inPanic Diariesshe is brilliantly interdisciplinary, joining social theory with rigorous historical research, feminist criticism, and science studies to give us a genealogy of panic from its invention in nineteenth-century social science to its late-twentieth-century medicalization as panic disorder. And more, all of this is cut through with autobiographic experimental writing that makes your heart beat faster—a first-hand experience of panic. A book to read, a book to teach.”—Patricia Ticineto Clough, author ofAutoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Technology