Naked to the bone : medical imaging in the twentieth century / by Kevles, Bettyann

Table of Contents: “…X-Rays in the Imagination: The Avant-Garde through Surrealism -- 7. The Perfect Slice: The Story of CT Scanning -- 8. …”
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Therapeutic communities for psychosis : philosophy, history and clinical practice /

Table of Contents: “…An exploration of the term autonomy : attitudes and philosophy for a modern concept in mental health / Raúl Gómez and Beatriz Sánchez España -- Holding structures in a crisis centre : an apllied psyhoanalytical model / Tamar Schonfield and Kannan Navaratnem -- Psychological care in therapeutic communities / Marcel Sassolas -- Madness, persecution and transference / Diego Nin Pratt -- A community treatment programme for people in Krakow suffering from schizophrenia / Andrzej Cechnicki and Anna Bielańska -- Surrealism, psychosis and the therapeutic community : a window onto the mental landscape / Beatriz Sánchez España, John Gale, and María Sánchez Suárez -- The multi-family structured therapeutic community : reflections on the experience of the therapeutic community, Tarsia, Italy / Andrea Naracci -- The Farm House, Farooqabad, Sheikhupura, Pakistan / Haroon Rashid Chaudhry, Saima Niaz, and Tahir Suleman -- Drama therapy in community treatment programme / Anna Beilańska and Andrzej Cechnicki -- Psychodrama and the psychotic member / Kleopatra Psarraki -- New visions in the long-term outpatient therapy of psychosis : the therapeutic community within the community / Andreas Von Wallenberg Pachaly -- Evidence for the effectiveness of therapeutic community treatment of the psychoses / John Gale and Beatriz Sánchez España.…”

The apothecary's chest : magic, art and medication /

Table of Contents: “…The phrenological dreamer : the popular medical and fictional writing of Robert Macnish (1802-1837) / Megan Coyer -- Animal magic : conjury and power in colonial taxidermy / John Miller -- A wizard/witch's duel : gender power struggles and the occult in surrealism / Rachel Grew -- Old spells, magic herbs and frightening creatures : the curandera in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me, Ultima / João de Mancelos -- The rising gorge : poison, Hamlet and sin / Christa Mahalik -- Prescription narratives : rereading Joseph Cornell's Pharmacy series as a "modernist antidote" / Catriona McAra -- Theatres of memory and restraint : Matthew Barney among the Neo-Platonists / Corin Depper -- The popular use of "precious" stones medicinally in early modern Scotland / Tom Blaen -- Theodora, "the pills" and the saints : female practices toward drug prescrtiption, rearrangements of male therapeutic power / Athena Peglidou -- "I will put none of these diseases upon thee ( -- ) for I am the Lord that healeth thee" : Christ as pharmacist and healer in iconography and literature of late medieval and early modern times / Jacek Kowzan -- Magic, mysticism and medicine : the medical career of John Webster (1611-1682) / Lindsey Fitzharris -- "They go by their dreams" : myth-making and rationality in the initiation of the shaman Quesalid / Harry Whitehead -- From mere bellies to the bad shaman : roles of the contemporary poet / Bill Herbert.…”
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Culture on drugs : Narco-cultural studies of high modernity. by Boothroyd, Dave

Table of Contents: “…Baudelaire and the high flâneurSurrealism: dreaming the revolution; Benjamin on hashish and the love of things; 6 Hallucinating Sartre; Philosophy and/or intoxication; The value of intoxication; The evidence of consciousness; Hallucination as a 'stumbling block' for the theory of consciousness; Sartre and Lewin; Sartre's mescaline trip; Merleau-Ponty: ambiguity and hallucination; Hallucination as a literary sort of high; 7 Foucault and Deleuze on acid; Drugs and the orbit of madness; LSD in the Theatrum Philosophicum: 'What will people think of us?'…”
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The coronavirus crisis and its teachings : steps towards multi-resilience / by Benedikter, Roland, Fathi, Karim

Table of Contents: “…-- Don't forget the bizarre, the surreal and the perfidious : from Mona Lisa to Sharon Stone and global terror -- Coronavirus crisis social psychology : between disorientation, infodemic and the need to understand -- Conspiracy theories : misusing the crisis for legitimating the absurd in times of "fake news" -- The perspective : the real question is not about COVID-19, but about "the world after" -- In search of examples of efficient resilience : from the evolutionary teachings of bats to regional self-administration within political autonomies to a "flexible" handling of constitutions -- Crisis resistance in the face of Corona and in anticipation of potential future pandemics : a short overview of different options of socio-political responses -- The primordial path to follow : enhancing resilience. …”
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Leading through a pandemic : the inside story of humanity, innovation, and lessons learned during the covid-19 crisis / by Dowling, Michael J.

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