Bogousslavsky, Julien (Editor)
Dieguez, Sebastian (Editor)
Classical and modern literature is full of patients with interesting neurological, cognitive, or psychiatric diseases, often including detailed and accurate descriptions, which suggests the authors were inspired by observations of real people. In many cases these literary portrayals of diseases even predate their formal identification by medical science. Fictional literature encompasses nearly all kinds of disorders affecting the nervous system, with certain favorites such as memory loss and behavioral syndromes. There are even unique observations that cannot be found in scientific and clinical literature because of the lack of appropriate studies. Not only does literature offer a creative and humane look at disorders of the brain and mind, but just as authors have been inspired by medicine and real disorders, clinicians have also gained knowledge from literary depictions of the disorders they encounter in their daily practice. This book provides an amazing and fascinating look at neurological conditions, patients, and doctors in literature and film in a way which is both nostalgic and novel.
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Review Ginn, Sherry (2015) Review of "Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (pp. 109-110).
Chapter Tatu, L.; Bogousslavsky, J. (2013) Madness in Blaise Cendrars' Novels: Moravagine and Company. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 1-9).
Chapter Dieguez, S. (2013) Balzac's Louis Lambert: Schizophrenia before Kraepelin and Bleuler. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 10-34).
Chapter Walusinski, O. (2013) Hysteria in Fin De Siècle French Novels. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 35-43).
Chapter Bogousslavsky, J. (2013) The Nadja Case. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 44-51).
Chapter Bulmus, Birsen; Rouillon, F. (2013) The Great Neurosis of Dr. Joseph Gerard. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 52-59).
Chapter Piechowski-Jozwiak, B.; Bogousslavsky, J. (2013) Psychopathic Characters in Fiction. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 60-68).
Chapter Paciaroni, M.; Kilcline, T. (2013) Misidentifications in Pirandello's Plays and Short Stories. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 69-76).
Chapter Dieguez, S. (2013) Doubles Everywhere: Literary Contributions to the Study of the Bodily Self. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 77-115).
Chapter Voskuil, P. H. A. (2013) Van Gogh's Disease in Light of His Correspondence. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 116-125).
Chapter Haan, J. (2013) Migraine and Methaphor. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 126-136).
Chapter Dieguez, S.; Annoni, J. M. (2013) Stranger Than Fiction: Literary and Clinical Amnesia. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 137-168).
Chapter Carota, A.; Calabrese, P. (2013) Alcoholism between Fiction and Reality. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 169-177).
Chapter Haan, J. (2013) Protagonists with Parkinson's Disease. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 178-187).
Chapter Perkin, G. D. (2013) Some Movement Disorders. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 188-194).
Chapter Voskuil, P. H. A. (2013) Epilepsy in Dostoevsky's Novels. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 195-214).
Chapter Poirier, J.; Philippon, J. (2013) Theater in Professor Charcot's Galaxy. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 215-224).
Chapter Moulin, T. (2013) Doctors in Balzac's Work. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 225-235).
Chapter Crommelynck, I. (2013) Doctor Chekhov's Doctors. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 236-244).
Chapter Bogousslavsky, J. (2013) Marcel Proust's Fictional Diseases and Doctors. In: Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (pp. 245-254).
Thesis
Conti, Meredith Ann;
(2011)
Stages of Suffering: Performing Illness in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Theatre
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Article
Shanahan, Fergus;
Quigley, Eamonn M. M.;
(2012)
In Search of Lost Opportunities: Marcel Proyce and James Joust Discuss Doctors, Diseases, Life and Death (a Hypothetical Conversation between Marcel Proust and James Joyce)
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Thesis
Meek, Heather;
(2007)
“Spleen Spreads His Dominion”: Cultural, Literary, and Medical Representations of Hysteria, 1670--1810
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Chapter
Finn, Michael R.;
(2003)
Retrospective Medicine, Hypnosis, Hysteria and French Literature, 1875-1895
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Chapter
Row-Heyveld, Lindsey;
(2013)
Antic Dispositions: Mental and Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy
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Book
Mitchell-Boyask, Robin;
(2008)
Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius
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Article
Gardner-Thorpe, Christopher;
(2002)
Neurology of the Arts: Mansell Bequest Symposium at the Medical Society of London 30 April-1 May 2001
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Thesis
Atienza, Belén;
(2000)
¡Cata el loco! Locura, melancolia y teatro en la España de Lope de Vega (Spanish text)
(/isis/citation/CBB001562672/)
Book
Susan A. Ashley;
(2018)
“Misfits” in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference
(/isis/citation/CBB632805594/)
Thesis
Phillips, Patrick;
(2006)
“Fleshes Rage”: Ben Jonson and the Plague
(/isis/citation/CBB001561648/)
Book
Rousseau, G. S.;
Gill, Miranda;
Haycock, David;
Herwig, Malte;
(2003)
Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History
(/isis/citation/CBB000501990/)
Article
Mark Elam;
(2015)
How the Brain Disease Paradigm Remoralizes Addictive Behaviour
(/isis/citation/CBB789369122/)
Article
Clark-Evans, Christine;
(2003)
The Poetic Brain: Neuroscience and Myth in the Poetry of Louise Labé and Pierre de Ronsard
(/isis/citation/CBB000430319/)
Thesis
Larkin, Christopher Ross;
(2013)
Iatrochemical Healing in Shakespeare and Donne: The Diseased and Cured Body in the English Literary Imagination, 1590--1638
(/isis/citation/CBB001567518/)
Article
Haack, Kathleen;
Kumbier, Ekkehardt;
Herpertz, Sabine C.;
(2010)
Illnesses of the Will in “Pre-Psychiatric” Times
(/isis/citation/CBB001232240/)
Article
Rubén Domínguez Quintana;
(2021)
Degeneracionismo y ficción: discurso científico en Benito Pérez Galdós
(/isis/citation/CBB201664149/)
Article
François Boller;
Nicoletta Caputi;
(2018)
Thomas Mann’s Depiction of Neurosyphilis and Other Diseases
(/isis/citation/CBB925365789/)
Book
Emanuele Stolfi;
(2022)
Come si racconta un'epidemia: Tucidide e altre storie
(/isis/citation/CBB569097952/)
Article
Rynearson, Nicholas;
(2009)
A Callimachean Case of Lovesickness: Magic, Disease, and Desire in Aetia
(/isis/citation/CBB001035551/)
Book
Peterson, Kaara L.;
(2010)
Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England
(/isis/citation/CBB001231041/)
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