Extremes  30927

Reflections on human behaviour

  • Extremes: A Mirror
  • Extremes of the Heart
    • The Burning Heart: Why people drive themselves to extremes, as illustrated by the comparison of Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais
    • Heart Transplants: Organ worship, from Saint Marguerite Marie and the Sacred Heart to Dr. Christiaan Barnard
    • The Neurotic Heart: A four-hour analysis of Gustav Mahler by Dr. Sigmund Freud during a summer afternoon walk in Leiden
    • Soldier’s Heart: A medical problem of those who have no desire to be heroes
  • Extremes of Men and Knives
    • The Perfect Crime: How the maid Corday stabbed the butcher Marat, and how they fared posthumously
    • The Anatomy Lesson: Some instructive practices around the dissecting table
    • Eternal Youth: Retaining male potency, a losing but heroic battle
    • “Viva il Coltello”: Masculinity sacrificed to Italian opera
  • Extremes of Faith
    • Parthenogenesis: Immaculate conception in lizards and the mother goddess, a lesson in biology and Mariology
    • Heretics: Paying the cost of one’s convictions, as illustrated by the fate of the Cathars
    • Anorexia Religiosa: The eating habits of saints and young girls, with particular reference to Catherine of Siena
  • Extremes of the Senses
    • A Taste for Cabin Boys: Cannibalism for survival and as a ritual, with some unexpected consequences
    • In the Land of the Blind: How the world failed to see what Louis Braille could feel
    • False Paradises: Opium, absinthe, and the composition of satanic verse
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