| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 291 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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? |
| Summary |
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 specifically a histopathologist, Dr. Ober has spent most of his life trying to diagnose diseases by looking through a microscope at pieces of tissue removed from the human body by biopsy, at surgery or autopsy. By applying medical analyses, and by applying evidence from other disciplines as well, Dr. Ober scrutinizes selected literary subjects and brings to their mind-body problems new and often astonishing interpretations. -- Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Medicine -- Case studies
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Authors -- Health and hygiene -- Case studies
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Authors -- Biography.
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Literature and medicine
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Celebrities.
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Medicine in literature.
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Famous Persons
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Medicine in Literature
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Medicine in literature
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Celebrities
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Authors
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Authors -- Health and hygiene
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Literature and medicine
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Medicine
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essays.
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collective biographies.
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Essays
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Biographies
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Case studies
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Essays.
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Biographies.
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Essais.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585178887 |
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9780585178882 |
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