The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... context . I hope that the reader will not be too severely taxed by these repetitions . I could say ( with Keynes in the preface of his General Theory ) that " the composition of this book has been for the author a long struggle of ...
... context . I hope that the reader will not be too severely taxed by these repetitions . I could say ( with Keynes in the preface of his General Theory ) that " the composition of this book has been for the author a long struggle of ...
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... context of the degeneration concept . Through Cox's efforts , degeneration has been posed as a neutral concept : a correlation loss of faculties with no impli- cation of social failure or success . We use the word decadence to denote ...
... context of the degeneration concept . Through Cox's efforts , degeneration has been posed as a neutral concept : a correlation loss of faculties with no impli- cation of social failure or success . We use the word decadence to denote ...
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... CONTEXT In any effort at orientation in the multiple forms of epileptic manifestations it is advisable , with reference to Johnson's mental disturbances , to focus on the group of manifestations described as psychomotor attacks ...
... CONTEXT In any effort at orientation in the multiple forms of epileptic manifestations it is advisable , with reference to Johnson's mental disturbances , to focus on the group of manifestations described as psychomotor attacks ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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