Forensic doctor shows "how medical information and insights can illuminate and perhaps resolve certain literary problems". The essays incluude Plato's account of Socrates' death, John Keats use of opium, madness of several poets,how D,H, Lawrence's illness and psychosexual conflicts affected his last novel. "Mischievously humorous"

Boswell's Clap and Other Essays: Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions

Literature & Fiction

Ober, William B.

History & Criticism

Harpercollins

Essays discuss murder trials, plagues, infertility in the Bible, Rimbaud, depression, leprosy, and flagellation

Bottoms Up!: A Pathologist's Essays on Medicine and the Humanities

Medical Books

Medicine

Bottoms Up a Pathologist Essay On Med

Allison Busby

First hardback edition. A collection of essays, written between 1980 and 1990 which show a number of ways medical information can illuminate certain literary problems. xiv, 290 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. small 8vo..

Boswells Clap and Other Essays

Citadel

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