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.
依稀记得《围城》中方鸿渐留学回乡后,赶鸭子上架被邀请为家乡的众学子演讲的那一段。倒不是那一段有多么的幽默,而是他所选择的演讲话题放当时也确实是太惊世骇俗。鸦片与梅毒,前者也就算了,后者实在是难等大雅之堂,难怪弄的台上台下,乡里乡亲的之后都不待见他。 看到《天...
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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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評分按照惯例,上个封面先。 封面还是很有辨识度的。 个人感觉问题,今年很喜欢这个亮橙色,这个就不做参考了哈。就这个封面来说,是不是:骷髅意味着梅毒?拔掉亮橙色的皮之后露出了本来的面目,原来是骷(mei)髅(du)——外表一片光鲜亮丽,内里腐败成渣。 看这书给我的也...
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