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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... type of history in which science follows a linear development toward its perfection is what Nietzsche called monumental history. Here the historian engages in a celebration of the great names of the past that, taken as a symbolic ...
... type of history in which science follows a linear development toward its perfection is what Nietzsche called monumental history. Here the historian engages in a celebration of the great names of the past that, taken as a symbolic ...
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... type are cases in point. Or, once we know that spirochetes are making a trip through a person's brain, we are no longer inclined to call the sufferer mad, however insane the fellow's behavior may be. For the time being at least ...
... type are cases in point. Or, once we know that spirochetes are making a trip through a person's brain, we are no longer inclined to call the sufferer mad, however insane the fellow's behavior may be. For the time being at least ...
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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.
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