Books written by Sander L. Gilman

The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle

""There is no category of supposed human beings that comes closer to the orangutan than does a Polish Jew," said a Bavarian writer, reflecting the eighteenth-century view that Jews were...
Illness and Image: Case Studies in the Medical Humanities

" Illness and Image provides students and researchers with models and possible questions regarding categories often assumed to be either trans-historical or objective, making it useful as a textbook.
Hysteria Beyond Freud

What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria.
Freud, Race, and Gender

Sigmund Freud , Jugendbriefe an Eduard Silberstein 1871-1881 , ed . Walter Boehlich ( Frankfurt a . M .: Fischer , 1989 ) , p . 137 ; translation from The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein , 1871-1881 , trans .
Reading Freud's Reading

Specialists from a wide range of areas - from the history of medicine, to literary scholarship, to the history of classical scholarship - spent two months working on questions raised by Freud's reading and his library at the Freud Museum in ...
Reading Freud's Reading

Freud's tributes to artists as the discoverers of the unconscious went side by side with a certain antipathy to those like Dostoevsky who seemed too greatly in its power. The display of unconscious forces was in itself no grounds for ...
Franz Kafka

Felice tellsBrod, whohad come to Berlin and visited her, that she felt that even withthe stream of letters she knew less and less about Franz.It was not until1913 that Kafka mether threetimes in Berlin,visiting on one occasion the grave ...
Příběh kouře: Člověk a kouření od úsvitu dějin až po současnost

... oš- klivé kvítí“, a tvrdí, že „prvním zmiňovate- lem a objevitelem jeho byl Diuell, prvními uživateli jeho byli Diuellovi kněží, pročež jej my křesťané užívati nesmíme“.58 Jak tyto pří- klady ukazují, připisování téměř náboženské ...
Hysteria Beyond Freud

See Alan Krohn , Hysteria : The Elusive Neurosis , appearing in Psychological Issues , nos . 45/46 ( New York : International Universities Press , 1978 ) . These problems are intelligently addressed for a comparably elusive condition ...
Seeing the Insane

Seeing the Insane is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both reflected and shaped the perception and treatment of the mentally disturbed.
Fat Boys: A Slim Book

Contents Preface ix Introduction : Fat Is a Man's Issue 1 1. Fat Boys in the Cultural History of the West 35 2. Fat Boys Writing and Writing Fat Boys 63 3. Patient Zero : Falstaff 111 4. How Fat Detectives Think ( And Fat Villains Act ) ...
Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis

... confrontation as it emerges within its historical context. TWO NATIONS ARE IN THY WOMB: There are two proud nations ... small nation-states; with the emergence of Esau and Jacob, “two peoples shall be separated from thy womb.” From now ...
The Third Reich Sourcebook

With thirty chapters on ideology, politics, law, society, cultural policy, the fine arts, high and popular culture, science and medicine, sexuality, education, and other topics, The Third Reich Sourcebook is the ultimate collection of ...
Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference

Ours is a culture riddled with preoccupations about health and disease. In this timely study Sander Gilman demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which...
Are Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity

Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy?
Diseases and Diagnoses: The Second Age of Biology

In this fascinating volume, Gilman looks at historical and contemporary debates about the stigma associated with biologically transmitted diseases.
Sexuality: An Illustrated History

A pictorial cultural history of the images and iconography of sexuality in the Western world, from the Middle Ages down to the present. The first book of its type, this...