Bottoms Up!: A Pathologist's Essays on Medicine and the Humanities

by William B. Ober

Book Overview

"The reader will note," Dr. Ober explains, "that psychopathology occupies a prominent place in these essays--melancholia, masochism, hysteria, autoerotic asphyxia, and other dinner table topics." The book opens with a brisk discussion of flagellation--studded with rare illustrations. Like all of the essays in the book, this is an illuminating chapter, scholarly and good natured at the same time, and one that gives rise to speculation concerning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809314193
• ISBN13: 9780809314195
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"