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0: INTRODUCTION 1: A CLINICAL LESSON 2: WHAT IS A DISEASE? 3: PYGMALION AND GALATEA 4: THE INVENTION OF HYSTERIA 5: THE PAPUAN IDOL 6: HEARTS OF DARKNESS 7: THE SOUL OF A NEW DISEASE 8: THE UNSETTLED TERRITORIES OF THE MIND 9: THE DIFFICULT CASE OF ANNA O. 10: THE DEVIL AND ADRIAN LEVERKÜHN 11: SEX AND THE NEW WOMAN 12: WINNING THE BATTLE AND LOSING THE WAR 13: THE PSYCHIC INTERPRETATION OF DISEASE 14: A BEAUTIFUL NAME FOR A HORRIBLE DISEASE 15: MEDICINAL LOBOTOMY: THE INVENTION OF THORAZINE 16: THE FEVERED DREAM OF A SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY 17: THE LESSONS OF NEUROSYPHILIS
Dr Allan H. Ropper is a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the
Raymond D. Adams Master Clinician of the Department of Neurology at
Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is also a deputy editor of the New
England Journal of Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of
Neurology, Royal College of Physicians, and the American College of
Physicians. Dr Ropper is author of the most widely consulted
textbook of neurology, Principles of Neurology, currently in its
eleventh edition, and co-author with B.D. Burrell of Reaching Down
the Rabbit Hole.
B. D. Burrell is a member of the mathematics faculty at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst. A teacher and writer, he is
the author of several books, including Postcards from the Brain
Museum, The Words We Live By, and, jointly with Dr Allan H. Ropper,
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole.
Absorbing and scholarly... A twin biography of psychiatry and
neurology, their study charts this uneasy relationship from
marriage to divorce to reconciliation even as fundamental questions
about the nature of mental illness remain... Hugely
entertaining.
*Guardian*
A rollicking ride, patient by patient, through the history of two
conditions, hysteria and neurosyphilis.
*The Times*
Central to this book is the ongoing dispute regarding which mental
illnesses can be attributed to physical abnormalities within the
brain and which originate in the mind, or consciousness. The
authors emphasise that in many cases we still cannot be sure...
Along the way, their investigations exhume some unforgettable
scenes and characters... Fascinating
*Mail on Sunday*
Rich, compassionate and passionate... Sceptical of the excesses of
both psychological and biological reductionism, it is a refreshing
call for an intellectual reset and disciplinary rapprochement.
*Nature*
This aptly titled book picks up where Oliver Sacks left off in
examining the behavioral characteristics of neurobehavioral
syndromes in an effort to span the gap that has historically
separated the twin disciplines of the brain, neurology and
psychiatry.
*Jeffrey A. Lieberman, author of Shrinks: The Untold Story of
Psychiatry*
Through tales of eminent physicians and their suffering patients,
replete with sex, drugs, and magnetically-induced hypnotism, we
learn how a bacterium that deprived countless souls of their reason
also helped scientists discover a role for brain biology in mental
illness.
*Alan Jasanoff, PhD, author of The Biological Mind*
Ropper and Burrell have written an insightful, fantastically
readable analysis of what was once called "hysteria." Also, by
studying how things can go wrong, we learn a great deal about the
working of the human mind when things go right.
*Elizabeth Loftus, author of Eyewitness Testimony*
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