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| Author | : Regina O'Melveny |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2012-04-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0316195820 |
Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in the Venetian medical society is threatened. Her father has left clues -- beautiful, thoughtful, sometimes torrid, and often enigmatic letters from his travels as he researches his vast encyclopedia, The Book of Diseases. After ten years of missing his kindness, insight, and guidance, Gabriella decides to set off on a quest to find him -- a daunting journey that will take her through great university cities, centers of medicine, and remote villages across Europe. Despite setbacks, wary strangers, and the menaces of the road, the young doctor bravely follows the clues to her lost father, all while taking notes on maladies and treating the ill to supplement her own work. Gorgeous and brilliantly written, and filled with details about science, medicine, food, and madness, The Book of Madness and Cures is an unforgettable debut.
| Author | : Regina O'Melveny |
| Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-06-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780316195812 |
A brilliant debut about a woman doctor in Renaissance Venice, forced to cross Europe in search of her father. Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice: a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entrée to this all-male profession, and inspired her at every turn. Then her father disappears and Gabriella faces a crisis: she is no longer permitted to treat her patients without her father's patronage. She sets out across Europe to find where-and why-he has gone. Following clues from his occasional enigmatic letters, Gabriella crosses border after border, probing the mystery of her father's flight, and opening new mysteries of her own. Not just mysteries of ailments and treatments, but ultimate mysteries of mortality, love, and the timeless human spirit. Filled with medical lore and sensuous, vivid details of Renaissance life, THE BOOK OF MADNESS AND CURES is an intoxicating and unforgettable debut.
| Author | : Regina O'Melveny |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2012-10-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781848547452 |
| Author | : Daniel Dorman |
| Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781590511015 |
As much the story of a young doctor finding his own path in a controversial new world of anti-psychotic drugs, this is the true account of a successful therapeutic process that took place six days a week, for seven years.
| Author | : Ned Beauman |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2018-02-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385353006 |
In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a huge Hollywood production on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues. Twenty years later, a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit the temple for his own ends, unaware that it is a locus of conspiracies far grander than anyone could ever have guessed. Shot through with intrigue, ingenuity, and adventure, and showcasing Beauman’s riotous humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat is a novel without parallel: inventive, anarchic, and delightfully insane.
| Author | : Elinor Lander Horwitz |
| Publisher | : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 1977-01-01 |
| Genre | : Mental disorders |
| ISBN | : 9780397317233 |
Discusses the treatment of the mentally ill through the ages.
| Author | : Andrew Scull |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 12 |
| Release | : 2015-04-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0691166153 |
Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
| Author | : Denise Russell |
| Publisher | : Polity |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1995-02-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780745612614 |
This book looks at the roots of modern psychiatry, its theoretical approach to women, and what shifting trends in diagnosis tell us about its social underpinning. Arguing at both an epistemological and empirical level, Russell challenges the biological base of conditions such as schizophrenia, depression, premenstrual syndrome, anorexia, bulimia and female criminality.
| Author | : George E. Atwood |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2012-04-23 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1136621261 |
Despite the many ways in which the so-called psychoses can become manifest, they are ultimately human events arising out of human contexts. As such, they can be understood in an intersubjective manner, removing the stigmatizing boundary between madness and sanity. Utilizing the post-Cartesian psychoanalytic approach of phenomenological contextualism, as well as almost 50 years of clinical experience, George Atwood presents detailed case studies depicting individuals in crisis and the successes and failures that occurred in their treatment. Topics range from depression to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder to dreams, dissociative states to suicidality. Throughout is an emphasis on the underlying essence of humanity demonstrated in even the most extreme cases of psychological and emotional disturbance, and both the surprising highs and tragic lows of the search for the inner truth of a life – that of the analyst as well as the patient.
| Author | : Michel Foucault |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2013-01-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307833100 |
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
