The Two Headed Boy And Other Medical Marvels
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The Two Headed Boy And Other Medical Marvels
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Author : Jan Bondeson
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2004-09
The Two Headed Boy And Other Medical Marvels written by Jan Bondeson and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies.Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, dicephaly, and extreme hairiness; his broader theme, however, is the infinite range of human experience. The dicephalous Tocci brothers and Lazarus Colloredo (from whose belly grew his malformed conjoined twin), the Swedish giant, and the king of Poland's dwarf--Bondeson considers these individuals not as "freaks" but as human beings born with sometimes appalling congenital deformities.He makes full use of original French, German, Dutch, Polish, and Scandinavian sources and explores elements of ethnology, literature, and cultural history in his diagnoses. Heavily illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, oil paintings, and photographs, The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels combines a scientist's scrutiny with a humanist's wonder at the endurance of the human spirit. Contents: The Two Inseparable Brothers, and a PrefaceThe Hairy Maid at the HarpsichordThe Stone-childThe Woman Who Laid an EggThe Strangest Miracle in the WorldSome Words about Hog-faced GentlewomenHorned HumansThe Biddenden MaidsThe Tocci Brothers, and Other DicephaliThe King of Poland's CourtDwarf Daniel Cajanus, the Swedish GiantDaniel Lambert, the Human ColossusCat-eating Englishmen and French Frog-swallowers
A Cabinet Of Medical Curiosities
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Author : Jan Bondeson
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-24
A Cabinet Of Medical Curiosities written by Jan Bondeson and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with Medical categories.
Long ago, curiosities were arranged in cabinets for display: a dried mermaid might be next to a giant's shinbone, the skeletons of conjoined twins beside an Egyptian mummy. In ten essays, Jan Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine: spontaneous human combustion, colonies of snakes and frogs living in a person's stomach, kings and emperors devoured by lice, vicious tribes of tailed men, and the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal. Bondeson tells the story of Mary Toft, who gained notoriety in 1726 when she allegedly gave birth to seventeen rabbits. King George I, the Prince of Wales, and the court physicians attributed these monstrous births to a "maternal impression" because Mary had longed for a meal of rabbit while pregnant. Bondeson explains that the fallacy of maternal impressions, conspicuous in the novels of Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, and Charles Dickens, has ancient roots in Chinese and Babylonian manuscripts. Bondeson also presents the tragic case of Julia Pastrana, a Mexican Indian woman with thick hair growing over her body and a massive overgrowth of the gums that gave her a simian or ape-like appearance. Called the Ape Woman, she was exhibited all over the world. After her death in 1860, Julia's husband, who had also been her impresario, had her body mummified and continued to exhibit it throughout Europe. Bondeson tracked the mummy down and managed to diagnose Julia Pastrana's condition as the result of a rare genetic syndrome.
The Einstein Quarterly Journal Of Biology And Medicine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Einstein Quarterly Journal Of Biology And Medicine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biology categories.
Cradle Of Liberty
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Author : Caroline Levander
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Release Date : 2006-10-25
Cradle Of Liberty written by Caroline Levander and has been published by Duke University Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-25 with Law categories.
Argues that from the late eighteeneth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts used the figure of the child to represent U.S. national belonging.
Freaks
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Author : Jan Bondeson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Freaks written by Jan Bondeson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Disfigured persons categories.
This is the remarkable story of the lives of individuals afflicted with severe deformities and how seventeenth and eighteenth-century British society reacted to their extraordinary bodies. From hog-faced women to dog-faced boys, Jan Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, and extreme hairiness. He considers these individuals not as 'freaks' but as human beings born with sometimes appalling congenital deformities
Discover
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Discover written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Science categories.
The Feejee Mermaid And Other Essays In Natural And Unnatural History
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Author : Jan Bondeson
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1999
The Feejee Mermaid And Other Essays In Natural And Unnatural History written by Jan Bondeson and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
A research physician whose specialties are rheumatology and internal medicine, Bondeson indulges his (and our) fascination with natural anomalies by presenting his findings concerning such historical scientific curiosities as the dragon-like basilisk, Jumbo the king of elephants, the raining down of fish and frogs, the vegetable lamb, and the title creature, the Feejee Mermaid. His approach is assuredly more scientific than anecdotal, but it still reads as a bit of a morbid history of natural science fraud and human gullibility. Quite a few bandw photos and drawings illustrate the text. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Amazing Dogs
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Author : Jan Bondeson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Amazing Dogs written by Jan Bondeson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Pets categories.
Bondeson tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.
Marvels Tales
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Marvels Tales written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Electronic journals categories.
Journal of fairy-tale studies.
Blood On The Snow
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Author : Jan Bondeson
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-25
Blood On The Snow written by Jan Bondeson and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-25 with True Crime categories.
The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspices to end the Iran-Iraq war. Across Scandinavia, Palme's killing had an impact similar to that of the Kennedy assassinations in the United States—and it ignited nearly as many conspiracy theories. Interest in the Palme slaying was most recently stirred by reports of the death of Christer Pettersson, who was tried for the murder twice, convicted the first time, and then acquitted on appeal. In his investigative account of Palme's still-unsolved murder, the historian Jan Bondeson meticulously recreates the assassination and its aftermath. Like the best works of crime fiction, this book puts the victim and his death into social context. Bondeson's work, however, is noteworthy for its dispassionate treatment of police incompetence: the police did not answer a witness's phone call reporting the murder just 45 seconds after it occurred, and further time was lost as the police sought to confirm that someone had actually been shot. When the police arrived on the scene, they did not even recognize the victim as the Prime Minister. This early confusion was emblematic of the errors that were to follow. Bondeson demolishes the various conspiracy theories that have been devised to make sense of the killing, before suggesting a convincing explanation of his own. A brilliant piece of investigative journalism, Blood on the Snow includes crime-scene photographs and reconstructions that have never before been published and offers a gripping narrative of a crime that shocked a continent.