"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.
不只是八卦,有些历史渊源在里头,引经据典的偷窥欧洲侧面小历史,蛮有收获~ 当然八卦爱好者也不能错过~嗯~还有梅毒患者~
评分当前我们的世界也被冠状病毒肆虐着,迄今世界上已有200多万人得病,接近15万人死亡,我们翘首以待着现代医学的疫苗想想相对于几百年前的人们我们至少是清醒明白着经历着什么,这是科技进步带来的力量也是文学离我们越来越远的一个原因吧。正是在响应居家隔离的日子里我拿起了这...
评分水银(汞)这种物质很有趣,既能用来制作春药,也能用来治疗性病。天然的硫化汞又称为朱砂,由于具有鲜红的色泽,被聪明的中国古人用来当做春药的添加剂,所谓“红丸金丹”,助兴效果不知如何,但明朝光宗皇帝用亲身实践告诉我们,他因为吃这个嗝屁了。水银有毒,所以也被当做...
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