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Literature, neurology, and neuroscience : neurological and psychiatric disorders /
This volume on the neurosciences, neurology, and literature vividly shows how science and the humanities can come together --- and have come together in the past. Its sections provide a new, broad look at these interactions, which have received surprisingly little attention in the past. Experts in t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands :
Elsevier,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Progress in brain research ;
v. 206. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: Neurological and psychiatric disorders in literature. William Shakespeare's neurology / Maurizio Paciaroni, Julien Bogousslavsky
- Locked-in: the syndrome as depicted in literature / Joost Haan
- Meningitis, a whirlpool of death: literary reflections and Russian cultural beliefs / Yuri Zagvazdin
- Parkinsonism in poets and writers / Julien Bogousslavsky, Maurizio Paciaroni
- Neurosyphilitics and madmen: the French fin-de-si�ecle fictions of Huysmans, Lermina, and Maupassant / Andrea Goulet
- Charcot, la Salp�etri�ere, and hysteria as represented in European literature / Peter J. Koehler
- Historical and literary roots of M�unchhausen syndromes: as intriguing as the syndromes themselves / R�egis Olry, Duane E. Haines
- The Alice in Wonderland syndrome / Edward J. Fine
- Tomas Transtr�omer's stroke of genius: language but no words / Iv�an Iniesta
- Part 2: Treating neurological disorders in the media and literature. The cruelty and failings of therapies for neurological diseases in French literature / Olivier Walusinski
- Portrayals of lobotomy in American and Swedish media / Kenneth �Ogren
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in literature: Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / Charles H. Kellner.