Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers

Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough

Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers

By
John J. Ross
John J. Ross
2012 • 304 pages

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93 books

Medicine

Knightingale
Jarrad Maiers
In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine
The Debt Trap
Children Under Fire: An American Crisis
Pathologies of Power
Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms U.S. Health Care

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201 books

History Of Medicine

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Mad, Bad And Sad
Strange Medicine
The Hot Zone
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

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276 books

Medicine

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Unwell Women
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Mad, Bad And Sad
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Strange Medicine

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101 books

Narrative Nonfiction

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The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Fun home
El Deafo
Night Flying Woman
Adrift
Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
Rebent Sinner

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32 books

Arts

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The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era
On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing
Just my type
Mauve
Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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16 books

Disease

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The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases
Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions
Brain storms
The Doctors' Plague
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease