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- catalog abstract "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. 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. 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.".
- catalog alternative "Uitersten. English".
- catalog contributor b2804744.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "Extremes: A Mirror -- Extremes of the Heart. The Burning Heart. Heart Transplants. The Neurotic Heart. Soldier's Heart -- Extremes of Men and Knives. The Perfect Crime. The Anatomy Lesson. Eternal Youth. "Viva il Coltello" -- Extremes of Faith. Parthenogenesis. Heretics. Anorexia Religiosa -- Extremes of the Senses. A Taste for Cabin Boys. In the Land of the Blind. False Paradises.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog extent "ix, 207 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0151294763".
- catalog identifier "9029096268".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng dut".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harcourt Brace Janovich,".
- catalog subject "302/.17 20".
- catalog subject "CT9990 .D86 1992".
- catalog subject "Characters and characteristics.".
- catalog subject "Eccentrics and eccentricities.".
- catalog subject "Human behavior.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Extremes: A Mirror -- Extremes of the Heart. The Burning Heart. Heart Transplants. The Neurotic Heart. Soldier's Heart -- Extremes of Men and Knives. The Perfect Crime. The Anatomy Lesson. Eternal Youth. "Viva il Coltello" -- Extremes of Faith. Parthenogenesis. Heretics. Anorexia Religiosa -- Extremes of the Senses. A Taste for Cabin Boys. In the Land of the Blind. False Paradises.".
- catalog title "Extremes : reflections on human behavior / A.J. Dunning ; translated from the Dutch by Johan Theron.".
- catalog title "Uitersten. English".
- catalog type "text".