Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and FilmJ. Bogousslavsky, S. Dieguez Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, 2013 - 262 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Preface | |
Moravagine and Company | |
Schizophrenia before Kraepelin and Bleuler | |
Hysteria in Fin de Siècle French Novels | |
The Nadja Case | |
The Great Neurosis of Dr Joseph Gerard | |
Psychopathic Characters in Fiction | |
Misidentifications in Pirandellos Plays and Short Stories | |
Alcoholism between Fiction and Reality | |
Protagonists with Parkinsons Disease | |
Some Movement Disorders | |
Epilepsy in Dostoevskys Novels | |
Theater in Professor Charcots Galaxy | |
Doctors in Balzacs Work | |
Doctor Chekhovs Doctors | |
Marcel Prousts Fictional Diseases and Doctors | |
Literary Contributions to the Study of the Bodily Self | |
Van Goghs Disease in the Light of His Correspondence | |
Migraine and Metaphor | |
Literary and Clinical Amnesia | |
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Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film J. Bogousslavsky,S. Dieguez Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2013 |
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