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Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Des Maladies Mentales Considérées Sous Les Rapports Médical, Hygiénique Et Médico-légal Par E. Esquirol
Author: The Anatomy of Madness
Author: William F. BynumPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415323833
Category : Psychiatric hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal
Author: Jean-Etienne-Dominique EsquirolPublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 712
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Mania
Author: David HealyPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801888220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This provocative history of bipolar disorder illuminates how perceptions of illness, if not the illnesses themselves, are mutable over time. Beginning with the origins of the concept of mania—and the term maniac—in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, renowned psychiatrist David Healy examines how concepts of mental afflictions evolved as scientific breakthroughs established connections between brain function and mental illness. Healy recounts the changing definitions of mania through the centuries, explores the effects of new terminology and growing public awareness of the disease on culture and society, and examines the rise of psychotropic treatments and pharmacological marketing over the past four decades. Along the way, Healy clears much of the confusion surrounding bipolar disorder even as he raises crucial questions about how, why, and by whom the disease is diagnosed. Drawing heavily on primary sources and supplemented with interviews and insight gained over Healy's long career, this lucid and engaging overview of mania sheds new light on one of humankind's most vexing ailments.
Catalogue Raisonné of the Medical Library of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Author: Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Medical LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Hospital libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
A System of Legal Medicine
Author: Allan McLane HamiltonPublisher:
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Category : Medical jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
A System of legal medicine v. 2
Author: Allan McLane HamiltonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
Author: Medical Library AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Medical Serials
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Medical jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
What Nostalgia Was
Author: Thomas DodmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022649313X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly. What Nostalgia Was unearths that history. Thomas Dodman begins his story in Basel, where a nineteen-year-old medical student invented the new diagnosis, modeled on prevailing notions of melancholy. From there, Dodman traces its spread through the European republic of letters and into Napoleon's armies, as French soldiers far from home were diagnosed and treated for the disease. Nostalgia then gradually transformed from a medical term to a more expansive cultural concept, one that encompassed Romantic notions of the aesthetic pleasure of suffering. But the decisive shift toward its contemporary meaning occurred in the colonies, where Frenchmen worried about racial and cultural mixing came to view moderate homesickness as salutary. An afterword reflects on how the history of nostalgia can help us understand the transformations of the modern world, rounding out a surprising, fascinating tour through the history of a durable idea.