The Bard will see you now

• Autores: Rowan Hooper
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2965, 2014, págs. 43-45
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • For all the crudity of 16th-century healthcare, there's a surprising amount of modern medical detail in William Shakespeare's plays. The behaviors of some of his characters often bear a striking resemblance to how today's doctors describe a range of neurological disorders, and his observations continue to inspire centuries after his death. One of those inspired was Sigmund Freud, who read Shakespeare as a child and quoted the plays in his works on psychoanalysis. Here, Hooper provides the case notes of Shakespeare's most famous characters