Literary medicine
Subtitle: brain disease and doctors in novels, theater, and film
By: volume editors, J. Bogousslavsky, S. Dieguez
Series: Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience -- v. 31; Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience -- v. 31.
Publisher: Karger
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9783318022711; 9783318022728
Subjects: Brain Diseases; Medicine in Literature; Physicians
Other titles: Brain disease and doctors in novels, theater, and film
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Madness in Blaise Cendrars' novels : Moravagine and company / Tatu, L., Bogousslavsky, J.; title: Balzac's Louis Lambert : schizophrenia before Kraepelin and Bleuler / Dieguez, S.; title: Hysteria in fin de sicle French novels / Walusinski, O.; title: The Nadja case / Bogousslavsky, J.; title: The Great neurosis of Dr. Joseph Gerard / Lefrère, J.-J., Rouillon, F.; title: Psychopathic characters in fiction / Piechowski-Jozwiaka, B., Bougousslavsky J.; title: Misidentifications in Pirandello's plays and short stories / Paciaroni, M., Kilcline, T.; title: Doubles everywhere : literary contributions to the study of the bodily self / Dieguez, S.; title: Van Gogh's disease in light of his correspondence / Voskuil, P.H.A.; title: Migraine and methaphor / Haan, J.; title: Stranger than fiction : literary and clinical amnesia / Dieguez, S., Annoni J.-M.; title: Alcoholism between fiction and reality / Carota, A., Calabrese P.; title: Protagonists with Parkinson's disease / Haan, J.; title: Some movement disorders / Perkin, G.D.; title: Epilepsy in Dostoevsky's novels / Voskuil, P.H.A.; title: Theater in Professor Charcot's Galaxy / Poirier J., Philippon, J.; title: Doctors in Balzac's work / Moulin T.; title: Dotor Chekhov's doctors / Crommelynck I.; title: Marcel Proust's fictional diseases and doctors / Bogousslavsky J.