Boswell's clap and other essays : medical analyses of literary men's afflictions /

The ten essays selected for this volume range from an investigation of Boswell's repeated infection with gonorrhea to a critical examination of Plato's account of Socrates's death in the Phaedo, subjects both ancient and modern. A pathologist by training and practice, more specificall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ober, William B., 1920-1993
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1988, ©1979.
Edición:1st pbk. ed.
Temas:
Medicine > Case studies.
Authors > Health and hygiene > Case studies.
Authors > Biography.
Literature and medicine.
Celebrities.
Medicine in literature.
Famous Persons
Medicine in Literature
Médecine > Études de cas.
Écrivains > Santé et hygiène > Études de cas.
Écrivains > Biographies.
Littérature et médecine.
Célébrités.
Médecine dans la littérature.
MEDICAL > History.
Authors.
Authors > Health and hygiene.
Medicine.
Essay
Biography
essays.
collective biographies.
Essays.
Biographies.
Case studies.
Essais.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Boswell's clap
  • Swinburne's masochism : neuropathology and psychopathology
  • Lady Chatterley's what?
  • Drowsed with the fume of poppies : opium and John Keats
  • Madness and poetry: a note on Collins, Cowper, and Smart
  • Chekhov among the doctors : the doctor's dilemma
  • William Carlos Williams, M.D. : physician as poet
  • Earl of Rochester and ejaculatio praecox
  • Thomas Shadwell : his exitus revis'd
  • Did Socrates die of hemlock poisoning?

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