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Of Silver and Serotonin: Thinking Through Depression, Inheritance, and Illness Narratives

2007-12-01

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Of Silver and Serotonin: Thinking Through Depression, Inheritance, and Illness Narratives Reviewed by Susan Cahn The Family Silver: A Memoir of Depression and Inheritance. By Sharon O'Brien. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 339 pages. $27.50 (paper). In 1989 President George H. W. Bush and the U.S. Congress declared the 1990s the "decade of the brain," suggesting that the phenomenal breakthroughs in bra...

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Literature Corpus work: e4517a73-f7e8-547b-ba71-d2b8a66dd533
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2007.0084

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