Extremes : reflections on human behavior
(Book)
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CT9990 .D8613 1992
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CT9990 .D8613 1992
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| General Shelving - 3rd Floor | CT9990 .D8613 1992 | On Shelf |
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Format
Book
Physical Desc
ix, 207 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Translation of: Uitersten.
General Note
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207).
Description
Dutch cardiologist A.J. Dunning brings a wry wit and an impressive knowledge of art, literature, and religion to his essays on the sublime and the monstrous in society. He writes of Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais, who were brought together in the service of their king and eventually burnt at the stake: one is a martyr, one as a pederast mass murderer. He compares a seventeenth-century nun's veneration of the heart with that of the first surgeons who performed heart.
Description
Transplants. He gives the clinical facts behind Gustav Mahler's fatal sore throat, Sigmund Freud's cocaine addiction, and Charlotte Corday's assassination of Marat in his bath. He tells of the practice in England of body-snatching for science, and of the practice in Italy of castrating young boys for music. He discusses parthenogenesis, the use of hormones in the search for eternal youth, and mystifying fatigue syndromes in different countries and generations. The.
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Invention of Braille. The satanic verse of Baudelaire. The atrocious eating habits of medieval saints and modern teenage girls. Informative, entertaining, preposterous tales - all documented, all true - of how unnatural human nature can be.
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committed to retain,20190228,20421231,HathiTrust,CtY,To help ensure preservation of print and digital collections, this title is retained by Yale University Library on behalf of the HathiTrust Shared Print Program.
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SACFinal081324
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dunning, A. J. (1992). Extremes: reflections on human behavior (First United States edition.). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dunning, A. J. 1992. Extremes: Reflections On Human Behavior. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dunning, A. J. Extremes: Reflections On Human Behavior New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Dunning, A. J. (1992). Extremes: reflections on human behavior. First United States edn. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dunning, A. J. Extremes: Reflections On Human Behavior First United States edition., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
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