Overview :Perhaps nothing is more revealing about a person than what he or she reads. In 1938, when Freud was forced by the Nazis to flee Vienna, he b... Read More
Overview :A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the "serious" medical literature of the fin de... Read More
Overview :The conflation of reality and the fantastic, ambiguity, the relentless confrontation with horror, the fractured sense of identity: Franz Kaf... Read More
Overview :According to the World Health Organization we are in the midst of a global obesity crisis. Is obesity a disease itself or a symptom of under... Read More
Overview :With the first patent being granted to "BiDil," a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific "race," African-Ame... Read More
Overview :The question of whether anti-Semitism is a transitory phenomenon, appearing randomly in Western history, or whether it reflects a deep seate... Read More
Overview :This fascinating new book looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction relating to obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth ... Read More
Overview :This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries di... Read More
Overview :From pharmaceutical companies to acupuncture, an essential investigation of the constantly evolving relationship between mainstream Western ... Read More
Overview :Nietzsche's friend, the philosopher Paul R e, once said that Nietzsche was more important for his letters than for his books, and even more ... Read More
Overview :Today the use of photography (and its extension, video) in psychiatry is a common practice. But in the 1850s, when pioneering medical photog... Read More