Literary Medicine Brain Disease And Doctors In Novels Theater And Film
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Literary Medicine Brain Disease And Doctors In Novels Theater And Film
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Author : J. Bogousslavsky
language : en
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Release Date : 2013
Literary Medicine Brain Disease And Doctors In Novels Theater And Film written by J. Bogousslavsky and has been published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Medical categories.
An amazing and fascinating look at neurological conditions in fiction and film Classical and modern literature is full of patients with interesting neurological, cognitive, or psychiatric diseases, often including detailed and accurate descriptions, which suggests the authors were inspired by observations of real people. In many cases these literary portrayals of diseases even predate their formal identification by medical science. Fictional literature encompasses nearly all kinds of disorders affecting the nervous system, with certain favorites such as memory loss and behavioral syndromes. There are even unique observations that cannot be found in scientific and clinical literature because of the lack of appropriate studies. Not only does literature offer a creative and humane look at disorders of the brain and mind, but just as authors have been inspired by medicine and real disorders, clinicians have also gained knowledge from literary depictions of the disorders they encounter in their daily practice. This book provides an amazing and fascinating look at neurological conditions, patients, and doctors in literature and film in a way which is both nostalgic and novel.
Illness And Literature In The Low Countries
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Author : Jaap Grave
language : en
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Release Date : 2015-12-09
Illness And Literature In The Low Countries written by Jaap Grave and has been published by V&R Unipress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine. The first book of Homer's Ilias recounts the plague that swept the camp of the Achaeans. While this instance concerns a full-length book, it is the aphorism that is of greater importance as a literary technique for the dissemination of medical knowledge, from the "Corpus Hippocraticum" of antiquity until the "Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis" (1715) by Herman Boerhaave. In addition, the subject of illness and its impact on mankind was explored by great numbers of poetic scholars and scholarly poets.This collection offers fourteen articles which all highlight the relation between disease and literature. It entails a first-ever overview of Dutch-language research in this field, whereby the literary and cultural functions of medical knowledge and the poetics of medical and literary writing are in the focus.
The Play Of Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann
Release Date : 1993
The Play Of Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon written by and has been published by Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with English drama categories.
Doctors And Discoveries
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Author : John Simmons
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2002
Doctors And Discoveries written by John Simmons and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Traces the history of western medicine through the lives of its major contributors, profiling such well-known figures as Hippocrates and Louis Pasteur, as well as lesser-known scientists including Elle Metchnikoff and Samuel Hahnemann.
Brain On Fire My Month Of Madness
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Author : Susannah Cahalan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-11-13
Brain On Fire My Month Of Madness written by Susannah Cahalan and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never again be the same person ...' Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no memory of what had happened or how she had got there. Within weeks, she would be transformed into someone unrecognizable, descending into a state of acute psychosis, undergoing rages and convulsions, hallucinating that her father had murdered his wife; that she could control time with her mind. Everything she had taken for granted about her life, and who she was, was wiped out. Brain on Fire is Susannah's story of her terrifying descent into madness and the desperate hunt for a diagnosis, as, after dozens of tests and scans, baffled doctors concluded she should be confined in a psychiatric ward. It is also the story of how one brilliant man, Syria-born Dr Najar, finally proved - using a simple pen and paper - that Susannah's psychotic behaviour was caused by a rare autoimmune disease attacking her brain. His diagnosis of this little-known condition, thought to have been the real cause of devil-possessions through history, saved her life, and possibly the lives of many others. Cahalan takes readers inside this newly-discovered disease through the progress of her own harrowing journey, piecing it together using memories, journals, hospital videos and records. Written with passionate honesty and intelligence, Brain on Fire is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your identity is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back. 'With eagle-eye precision and brutal honesty, Susannah Cahalan turns her journalistic gaze on herself as she bravely looks back on one of the most harrowing and unimaginable experiences one could ever face: the loss of mind, body and self. Brain on Fire is a mesmerizing story' -Mira Bartók, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Palace Susannah Cahalan is a reporter on the New York Post, and the recipient of the 2010 Silurian Award of Excellence in Journalism for Feature Writing. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, and is frequently picked up by the Daily Mail, Gawker, Gothamist, AOL and Yahoo among other news aggregrator sites.
Healing Arts In Dialogue
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Author : Joanne Trautmann Banks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Healing Arts In Dialogue written by Joanne Trautmann Banks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Literature and medicine categories.
Spring, 1975, nine people met for the first time at Sugar Loaf Conference Center in Philadelphia to discuss the relationship between literature and medicine. These humanists were committed to meet four more times during the next eighteen months. Contained in this book is the fruit of these discussions in the form of a dialoguea dialogue interspersed with lyric statements in prose and poetry.Participants in the dialogue: Nancy C. Andreasen, perhaps the world s only M.D./Ph.D. in literature, who has evolved from critic and composition teacher to psychiatrist at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. James C. Cowan, University of Arkansas, is editor of the "D. H. Lawrence Review "and a frequently published Lawrence scholar. Ian R. Lawson, who got his medical training in Scotland, practiced there and in India before serving as Director of the Hebrew Home for the Aged and as a faculty member at the University of Connecticut.Denise Levertov, a nurse in England before coming to the United States, is a major poet whose work is closely associated with the late poet/physician, William Carlos Williams. Harold Gene Moss is currently on the staff of the National Endowment for the Humanities: From the patient s point of view, he notes, the situation of serious illness is essentially tragic, but from the doctor s sequential point of view, it is comedic. William B. Ober, Director of Laboratories, Hackensack Hospital, is the author of "Boswell s Clap and Other Essays: Medical Analyses of Literary Men s Afflictions "(Southern Illinois University Press, 1979). Richard Selzer, New Haven surgeon, essayist, and short-story writer, came to the dialogue with one book behind him, the secondin which a surgeon is celebratedjust ahead."
The Principles And Practice Of Narrative Medicine
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Author : Rita Charon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Principles And Practice Of Narrative Medicine written by Rita Charon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Medical personnel and patient categories.
The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine articulates the ideas, methods, and practices of narrative medicine. Written by the originators of the field, this book provides the authoritative starting place for any clinicians or scholars committed to learning of and eventually teaching or practicing narrative medicine.
On The Move
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-04-28
On The Move written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life. With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions—weight lifting and swimming—also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists—Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick—who influenced him. On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer—and of the man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.
The Wood Demon
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Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
The Wood Demon written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with categories.
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
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Author : Jean-Dominique Bauby
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-03-06
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly written by Jean-Dominique Bauby and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A triumphant memoir by the former editor-in-chief of French Elle that reveals an indomitable spirit and celebrates the liberating power of consciousness. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him. Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. This book is a lasting testament to his life.