Author: Boris SidisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Nervous Ills
Author: Boris SidisRecasting American Liberty
Author: Barbara Young WelkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521649667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because of the color of their skin - Barbara Welke offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the twentieth century. The three-part narrative, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit, captures Americans' journey from a cultural and legal ethos celebrating manly independence and autonomy to one that recognized and sought to protect the individual against the dangers of modern life. Gender and race become central to the transformation charted here, as much as the forces of corporate power, modern technology and urban space.
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
July 1918-1943 include reports of various neurological and psychiatric societies.
Intestinal Ills
Author: Alcinous B. JamisonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This book is a collection of contributions by a specialist on the topic of health and deals with various digestive issues such as constipation, diarrhea, biliousness, indigestion, auto-infection, and proctitis. Despite the repetition of certain topics, the author believes it is useful for the reader to have a comprehensive understanding of the subject. The book was written for intelligent laypeople, but the content provided here may be useful even for general practitioners. The author believes that reading the whole book is better than just reading individual chapters, especially for those suffering from the aforementioned complaints.
A Dreamer and a Visionary
Author: S. T. JoshiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0853239460
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
"H. P. Lovecraft has come to be recognised as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. But how did a man who died in poverty, with no book of his stories published in his lifetime, become such an icon in horror literature? S. T. Joshi, the leading authority on Lovecraft, has traced in detail the course of Lovecraft's life, spent largely in Providence, Rhode Island, and has shown how Lovecraft was engaged in the political, economic, social, and intellectual currents of his time, and how his developing thought informed his fiction and other writings. Lovecraft's reaction to World War I, the Jazz Age, and the Depression, as well as to literary modernism and scientific advance, markedly affected his thought and work, so that by the end of his life he had become both a 'mechanistic materialist' and a 'cosmic regionalist' who looked to his New England heritage as a bulwark against the meaninglessness of a godless cosmos. It was the wonder and terror of that cosmos that Lovecraft depicted, with poetic grandeur, in his work." --Book Jacket.
Out of Her Mind
Author: Rebecca ShannonhousePublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0375755020
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Out of Her Mind, edited by Rebecca Shannonhouse, captures the best literature by and about women struggling with madness. A remarkable chronicle of gifted and unconventional women who have spun their inner turmoil into literary gold, the collection features classic short stories, breathtaking literary excerpts, key historical writings, and previously unpublished letters by Zelda Fitzgerald. Shannonhouse’s recent anthology, Under the Influence: The Literature of Addiction, is also available as a Modern Library Paperback Original.
Medical Brief
Author: Transactions of the ... Annual Meeting
Author: Illinois State Medical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Illinois State Medical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Includes list of members.
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