"How a transmittable little bacterium with a twisting propellant tail...deeply affected...mankind's perception of itself." Anthony Day, Los Angeles Times From Beethoven to Oscar Wilde, from Van Gogh to Hitler, Deborah Hayden throws new light on the effects of syphilis on the lives and works of seminal figures from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Writing with remarkable insight and narrative flair, Hayden argues that biographers and historians have vastly underestimated the influence of what Thomas Mann called "this exhilarating yet wasting disease." Shrouded in secrecy, syphilis was accompanied by wild euphoria and suicidal depression, megalomania and paranoia, profoundly affecting sufferers' worldview, their sexual behavior, and their art. Deeply informed and courageously argued, Pox has been heralded as a major contribution to our understanding of genius, madness, and creativity.
Deborah Hayden, An Independent Scholar And Marketing Executive, Has Lectured On Syphilis And Creativity, Most Recently At UCSF Medical School, San Francisco Conservatory Of Music, And The Bay Area History Of Medicine Society. She Lives In Mill Valley, California.
得了“它”,一生就要带着,它会让人痛苦不堪,慢慢被折磨而死。它就是梅毒,传染性强,潜伏期长,病情反复且一次比一次病重。那这种病毒从哪里来,到底造成了怎样的危害,正是《天才、狂人与梅毒》所要告诉我们的。 作者美国精神病研究者德博拉•海登,通过各种历史资料的...
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评分一本挺有意思的书,讲述了梅毒的发展史,还混杂了很多名人轶事,医学的发展,医学的伦理,西方社会的民间医药、炼金术士(类似中国的中医中药)等等,真让人大开眼界。 哥伦布、尼采、莫泊桑、福楼拜、林肯夫妇、王尔德、舒伯特、乔伊斯、贝多芬、凡高、舒曼、凯伦布里森、波...
评分一本挺有意思的书,讲述了梅毒的发展史,还混杂了很多名人轶事,医学的发展,医学的伦理,西方社会的民间医药、炼金术士(类似中国的中医中药)等等,真让人大开眼界。 哥伦布、尼采、莫泊桑、福楼拜、林肯夫妇、王尔德、舒伯特、乔伊斯、贝多芬、凡高、舒曼、凯伦布里森、波...
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