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Title: He Wanted the Moon: The Madness & Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird & His Daughter’s Quest to Know Him
Author: BAIRD MIMI
Illustrator: WITH EVE CLAXTON
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/03/2016
Imprint: RANDOM HOUSE
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
“a mid-century doctor’s raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter’s attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own. a Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career, ahead of his time, he grew fascinated with identifying the biochemical root of manic depression, just as he began to suffer from it himself. By the time the results of his groundbreaking experiments were published, Dr. Baird had been institutionalized multiple times, his medical license revoked, and his wife and daughters estranged. He later received a lobotomy and died from a consequent seizure, his research incomplete, his achievements unrecognized. aaaaaaaaaaa Mimi Baird grew up never fully knowing this story, as her family went silent about the father who had been absent for most of her childhood. Decades later, a string of extraordinary coincidences led to the recovery of a manuscript which Dr. Baird had worked on throughout his brutal institutionalization, confinement, and escape. This remarkable document, reflecting periods of both manic exhilaration and clear-headed health,
ISBN: 9780804137492
Pages: 272