In Sickness And In Power
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In Sickness And In Power
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Author : David Owen
language : en
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Release Date : 2008
In Sickness And In Power written by David Owen and has been published by Methuen Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This study of illness in heads of government between 1901 and 2007 considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the process of government and decision-making, leading to acts of folly, in the sense of stupidity or rashness.
In Sickness And In Power
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Author : David Owen
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2008-05-30
In Sickness And In Power written by David Owen and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-30 with Political Science categories.
The course of modern world history has been critically shaped by the physical and mental illnesses of heads of state, sometimes in the public eye but usually in secrecy. Democratic politicians as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Pompidou, Mitterrand, Blair, George W. Bush, Chirac, and Sharon all lied about their health. Between 1906 and 2008 seven Presidents are judged to have been mentally ill while in office: Theodore Roosevelt (bipolar disorder), Taft (breathing-related sleep disorder), Wilson (major depressive disorder), Coolidge (major depressive disorder), Hoover (major depressive disorder), Johnson (bipolar disorder), and Nixon (alcohol abuse). Many despots-such as Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Robert Mugabe-have been branded by the press and public opinion as suffering mental illnesses. Lord Owen argues neither Hitler nor Stalin were mad in any sense the medical profession recognizes (whereas Mussolini and Mao had depression, possibly bipolar disorder). Something happens to some leaders' mental stability while in power that is captured by Bertrand Russell's phrase, the intoxication of power. Hubristic behavior with excessive self-confidence is almost an occupational hazard for heads of government, as it is for leaders in other fields, such as business and the military, for it feeds on isolation and excessive deference. Owen argues that a medically definable condition called Hubris Syndrome affects some heads of government the longer they stay in office or after a specific triggering event such as 9/11. Recent leaders such as George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and Margaret Thatcher have developed Hubris Syndrome. Symptoms include patterns of reckless behavior, bad judgment, and operational incompetence, often compounded by delusions of personal infallibility and divine exemption from political accountability. Lord Owen makes the cases that democratic societies need to implement new procedures for dealing with illness in their own heads of government, and that they need to empower the United Nations to use new procedures and means for removing despots whose behavior becomes so hubristic as to pose a grave threat to their own people or the world.
In Sickness And In Power
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Author : David Owen
language : en
Publisher: Methuen
Release Date : 2022-03-17
In Sickness And In Power written by David Owen and has been published by Methuen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Sickness and In Power looks at illness in heads of government, business and military leaders between 1901 and 2007. It considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the decision-making of heads of government, engendering folly, in the sense of foolishness, stupidity or rashness. Owen is particularly interested in leaders who were not ill in the conventional sense, whose cognitive faculties functioned well, but who developed a 'hubristic syndrome' that powerfully affected their performance and their actions. As we learn here, they suffer a loss of capacity and become excessively self-confident and contemptuous of advice that runs counter to what they believe, or sometimes of any advice at all. Long fascinated with the inter-relationship between politics and medicine, David Owen uses his deep knowledge of both to look at sickness in political leaders. Owen expertly scrutinises such diverse political personalities as Sir Anthony Eden at the time of Suez in 1956; John F. Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961; the last Shah of Iran; and President Mitterrand of France who suffered from prostate cancer. The author also devotes a chapter to the hubristic behaviour and relationship between President Bush and Prime Minister Blair. The book ends by outlining some of the safeguards that society needs to address as a consequence of illness in heads of government. Revised and Updated Edition for 2016 including a new chapter entitled Hubris Syndrome in the Military.
A Book Of Comfort For Those In Sickness
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Author : Philip Bennett Power
language : en
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Release Date : 1974
A Book Of Comfort For Those In Sickness written by Philip Bennett Power and has been published by Banner of Truth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Religion categories.
Themes dealt with include: 'Being Useless', 'Unworthiness', 'Being a Trouble to Others'.
The Sick Man S Comfort Book
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Author : Philip Bennett Power
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
The Sick Man S Comfort Book written by Philip Bennett Power and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with categories.
Pious Memorials Or The Power Of Religion Upon The Mind In Sickness And At Death
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Author : Richard Burnham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1753
Pious Memorials Or The Power Of Religion Upon The Mind In Sickness And At Death written by Richard Burnham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1753 with Christian biography categories.
Pious Memorials Or The Power Of Religion Upon The Mind In Sickness And At Death Exemplified In The Experience Of Many Divines And Other Eminent Persons With A Preface By The Rev Mr Hervey
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Author : Richard BURNHAM (Biographer.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1788
Pious Memorials Or The Power Of Religion Upon The Mind In Sickness And At Death Exemplified In The Experience Of Many Divines And Other Eminent Persons With A Preface By The Rev Mr Hervey written by Richard BURNHAM (Biographer.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1788 with categories.
Curing Their Ills
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Author : Megan Vaughan
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-05-06
Curing Their Ills written by Megan Vaughan and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-06 with History categories.
Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vaughan's detailed examination of medical discourse of the period reveals its shifting and fragmented nature, highlights its use in the creation of the colonial subject in Africa, and explores the conflict between its pretensions to scientific neutrality and its political and cultural motivations. The book includes chapters on the history of psychiatry in Africa, on the treatment of venereal diseases, on the memoirs of European 'Jungle Doctors', and on mission medicine. In exploring the representations of disease as well as medical practice, Curing their Ills makes a fascinating and original contribution to both medical history and the social history of Africa.
Power And Illness
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Author : Daniel M. Fox
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1995-02-09
Power And Illness written by Daniel M. Fox and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-02-09 with Medical categories.
During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness—even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this has been so and offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national health care priorities. Fox discusses how ideas about illness and health care, as well as the power of special interest groups, have shaped the ways in which Americans have treated illness. Those who make health policy decisions have increased support for hospitals, physicians, and medical research, believing that people then would become healthier. This position, implemented at considerable cost, has not adequately taken into account the growing burden of chronic disabling illness. While decision makers may have defined chronic disease as a high priority in research, they have not given it such a priority in the financing of health services. The increasing burden of chronic illness is critical. Fox suggests ways to solve this problem without increasing the already high cost of health care—but he does not underestimate the difficulties in such a strategy. Advocating the redistribution of resources within hospital and medical services, he targets those that are redundant or marginally effective. There could be no more timely subject today than American health care. And Daniel Fox is uniquely able to address its problems. A historian of medicine, with knowledge of how hospitals and physicians behave and how health policy is made at government levels, he has extensively researched published and unpublished documents on health care. What he proposes could profoundly affect all Americans.
A Book Of Comfort In Sickness
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Author : Philip Bennett Power
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
A Book Of Comfort In Sickness written by Philip Bennett Power and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Consolation categories.