La médecine littéraire

Literary Medicine

Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film

Editor(s): Bogousslavsky J. (Montreux) & Dieguez S. (Fribourg)


Relié: 270 pages
Editeur : Karger Verlag (avril 2013)
ISBN-10: 3318022713
ISBN-13: 978-3318022711

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.

Contents

Preface
Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux); Dieguez, S. (Fribourg)

Madness in Blaise Cendrars’ Novels: Moravagine and Company
Tatu, L. (Besançon); Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux)

Balzac’s Louis Lambert: Schizophrenia before Kraepelin and Bleuler
Dieguez, S. (Fribourg)

Hysteria in Fin de Siècle French Novels
Walusinski, O. (Brou)

The Nadja Case
Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux)

The Great Neurosis of Dr. Joseph Gerard
Lefrère, J.-J.; Rouillon, F. (Paris)

Psychopathic Characters in Fiction
Piechowski-Jozwiak, B. (Orpington/London); Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux)

Misidentifications in Pirandello’s Plays and Short Stories
Paciaroni, M.; Kilcline, T. (Perugia)

Doubles Everywhere: Literary Contributions to the Study of the Bodily Self
Dieguez, S. (Fribourg)

Van Gogh’s Disease in the Light of His Correspondence
Voskuil, P.H.A. (Oosterhout)

Migraine and Metaphor
Haan, J. (Leiderdorp/Leiden)

Stranger than Fiction: Literary and Clinical Amnesia
Dieguez, S.; Annoni, J.-M. (Fribourg)

Alcoholism between Fiction and Reality
Carota, A. (Genolier); Calabrese, P. (Basel)

Protagonists with Parkinson’s Disease
Haan, J. (Leiderdorp/Leiden)

Some Movement Disorders
Perkin, G.D. (London)

Epilepsy in Dostoevsky’s Novels
Voskuil, P.H.A. (Oosterhout)

Theater in Professor Charcot’s Galaxy
Poirier, J. (Paris); Philippon, J. (Lamorlaye)

Doctors in Balzac’s Work
Moulin, T. (Besançon)

Doctor Chekhov’s Doctors
Crommelynck, I. (Paris)

Marcel Proust’s Fictional Diseases and Doctors
Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux)