Literature, Modern
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Some literary accounts of possible childhood paraplegia and neurorehabilitation.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To identify examples of the practice of neurorehabilitation in 19th and early 20th century NOVELS. METHODS: Four case of apparent childhood paraplegia, which date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are described. The approaches ... Read more...

Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome: its presentation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and its oral manifestations.

29 Sep 2009 Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) was first documented in the medical literature in 1886. A HGPS patient has the physical characteristics and appearances of an elderly individual. In 1921, F. Scott Fitzgerald published a short story ... Read more...

The importance of time in ethical decision making.

30 Aug 2009 Departing from a contemporary novel about a boy who is going to die from leukaemia, this article shows how the dimension of time can be seen as a morally relevant category that bridges both 'dramatic' issues, which constitute the dominant focus of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Literature, Modern'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Strange power of speech. 29 Oct 2009
• Some literary accounts of possible childhood paraplegia and neurorehabilitation. 29 Sep 2009
• "Psychoanalysis and the unconscious" and D.W. Winnicott's transitional and related phenomena. 29 Sep 2009
• The piano teacher: a case study in perversion and sadomasochism. 29 Sep 2009
• A psychoanalytic look at Herman Melville from his use of source materials for Moby-Dick. 29 Sep 2009
• Henry James and the art of the dream. 29 Sep 2009
• Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome: its presentation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and its oral manifestations. 29 Sep 2009
• The death of Ivan Ilyich and pain relief at the end of life. 10 Sep 2009
• The importance of time in ethical decision making. 30 Aug 2009
• [Medical picture and literature mystery] 10 Aug 2009
• Who lives? (We all do now--but it wasn't always that way). 30 Jul 2009
• Agave, Salome and the Enchanted Heads: mind and body dialectics in Euripides' and Oscar Wilde's work. 30 Jul 2009
• The patient's view: John Donne and Katharine Anne Porter. 16 Jul 2009
• [Physician--sculptures and literature puzzle] 6 Jul 2009
• [Addenda to the life of Albert Szent-Györgyi ] 29 Jun 2009
• Insights on overeating and health. 29 Jun 2009
• Medicine and the arts. Ethics [excerpt] by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Commentary. 29 Jun 2009
• Physician, heal thyself: Arthur Miller, Henrik Ibsen, and the enemies of the people. 15 Jun 2009
• [A bibliographical study on the Gapjinjache Naeuiwonjabon of Sikmulboncho] 30 May 2009
• On: The mother in the text: metapsychology and fantasy in the work of interpretation. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Literature, Modern'

Descriptor UI: D008093

Alternative terms: Literature, Modern; Modern Literature;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: K01.517.533;

Technical Notes: starts with 15th cent; coord IM with POETRY AS TOPIC (IM) or DRAMA (IM); DF: LIT MODERN