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.
"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.
关于天才与梅毒的话题,以前断断续续和形形色色的人聊过,聊到兴起,也拍着胸脯说,哪天我整理整理,也能出本书。然而,还真就有人写好了。省了好多事儿。 这本《天才、狂人与梅毒》分为两部分,上部从哥伦布发现新大陆讲起,讲到他从这片丰饶的土地带回黄金与奴隶,同时,也带...
評分关于天才与梅毒的话题,以前断断续续和形形色色的人聊过,聊到兴起,也拍着胸脯说,哪天我整理整理,也能出本书。然而,还真就有人写好了。省了好多事儿。 这本《天才、狂人与梅毒》分为两部分,上部从哥伦布发现新大陆讲起,讲到他从这片丰饶的土地带回黄金与奴隶,同时,也带...
評分 評分不只是八卦,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~
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