Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and LiteratureA sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present |
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... disease . And scientific models can lose their validity , by contemporary standards , and yet retain a tremendous fascination for us as examples of what Borges would have called fantastic literature , as examples of physiological and ...
... disease . And scientific models can lose their validity , by contemporary standards , and yet retain a tremendous fascination for us as examples of what Borges would have called fantastic literature , as examples of physiological and ...
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... disease or dysfunction , are no longer considered to be part of mad- ness . With regard to forms of insanity for which no organic cause is known , however , it does not seem to me that psychiatry can propose a knowledge of madness that ...
... disease or dysfunction , are no longer considered to be part of mad- ness . With regard to forms of insanity for which no organic cause is known , however , it does not seem to me that psychiatry can propose a knowledge of madness that ...
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... disease , nor are there simpli- fying single causal agents , such as simply fire or air . The Hippocratic texts present a series of descriptive language games in which the self or thymos interacts with visible or potentially visible ...
... disease , nor are there simpli- fying single causal agents , such as simply fire or air . The Hippocratic texts present a series of descriptive language games in which the self or thymos interacts with visible or potentially visible ...
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... Disease the physician states the brain is the source of mad- ness . This is not a localization in a modern sense , for there was no empirical reason for the Greeks to localize mental functions in the brain . ( Many did not , and the ...
... Disease the physician states the brain is the source of mad- ness . This is not a localization in a modern sense , for there was no empirical reason for the Greeks to localize mental functions in the brain . ( Many did not , and the ...
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... Disease is quite clear on this point : epilepsy may have a divine source , but no more so than any other dis- ease ... diseases have a cause , including a “ mental illness " such as epilepsy . The gods play no role in bringing about ...
... Disease is quite clear on this point : epilepsy may have a divine source , but no more so than any other dis- ease ... diseases have a cause , including a “ mental illness " such as epilepsy . The gods play no role in bringing about ...
Contents
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Part 2 The Modernity of Madness | 159 |
Madness between History and Neurology | 316 |
Notes | 325 |
Index | 337 |
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Page 210 - La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles; L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers. Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité, Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté, Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.
Page 118 - We nobly take the high priori road, And reason downward, till we doubt of God : Make Nature still encroach upon his plan; And shove him off as far as e'er we can : Thrust some mechanic cause into his place; Or bind in matter, or diffuse in space.
Page 302 - Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Tis the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are sane; Demur, - you're straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain.
Page 80 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not ' seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 81 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness?
Page 177 - I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity; And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 221 - Je ne puis plus, baigné de vos langueurs, ô lames, Enlever leur sillage aux porteurs de cotons, Ni traverser l'orgueil des drapeaux et des flammes, Ni nager sous les yeux horribles des pontons.
Page 80 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within, which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
References to this book
Geschichte und Genese grundlegender Konzepte des Wahnsinns mit Schwerpunkt ... Stefanie Gentner No preview available - 2008 |
Monster und Menschen: Verbrechererzählungen zwischen Literatur und ... Florian Beckerhoff Limited preview - 2007 |