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Autore |
Sirotkina Irina |
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Titolo |
Diagnosing literary genius : a cultural history of psychiatry in Russia, 1880-1930 / / Irina Sirotkina |
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Baltimore ; ; London, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Psychiatry - Russia - History - 19th century |
Psychiatry - Russia - History - 20th century |
Russian literature - 19th century |
Russian literature - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-259) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction I -- 1 Gogol, Moralists, and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry 14 -- 2 Dostoevsky: From Epilepsy to Progeneration 45 -- 3 Tolstoy and the Beginning of Psychotherapy in Russia 74 -- 4 Decadents, Revolutionaries, and the Nation's Mental Health 117 -- 5 The Institute of Genius: Psychiatry in the Early Soviet Years I45. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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By examining the psychiatric engagement with the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and the decadents and revolutionaries, Sirotkina provides a rich account of Russia's medical and literary history during this turbulent revolutionary period. |
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