James Joyce & the burden of disease
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James Joyce & the burden of disease
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The work James Joyce & the burden of disease represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- James Joyce & the burden of disease
- Statement of responsibility
- Kathleen Ferris
- Subject
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- Biography
- Electronic books
- Health
- Health in literature
- Health in literature
- Human body in literature
- Human body in literature
- Ireland
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Health
- 1900-1999
- Novelists, Irish
- Novelists, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography
- Sexually transmitted diseases in literature
- Sexually transmitted diseases in literature
- Syphilis -- Patients
- Syphilis -- Patients -- Ireland -- Biography
- Syphilis in literature
- Syphilis in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- James Joyce's near blindness, his peculiar gait, and his death from perforated ulcers are commonplace knowledge to most of his readers. But until now, most Joyce scholars have not recognized that these symptoms point to a diagnosis of syphilis. Kathleen Ferris traces Joyce's medical history as described in his correspondence, in the diaries of his brother Stanislaus, and in the memoirs of his acquaintances, to show that many of his symptoms match those of tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis which, untreated, eventually leads to paralysis. Combining literary analysis and medical detection,
- Cataloging source
- E7B
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- illustrations
- photographs
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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