Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name but a few. Along the way, we also meet many curious characters: in short, these stori...(展开全部)

Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name but a few. Along the way, we also meet many curious characters: in short, these stori...(展开全部)

Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women died from laughing too hard—or so a spate of sensationalist obituaries claimed. How could laughter be fatal, and what do these reports of women’s risible deaths tell us about the politics of female joy? Maggie Hennefeld reveals the forgotten histories of “hysterical laughter,” exploring how women’s amusement has been theorized and demoni...(展开全部)

Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women died from laughing too hard—or so a spate of sensationalist obituaries claimed. How could laughter be fatal, and what do these reports of women’s risible deaths tell us about the politics of female joy? Maggie Hennefeld reveals the forgotten histories of “hysterical laughter,” exploring how women’s amusement has been theorized and demoni...(展开全部)

In the mysterious leap from the body to the mind, and vice versa, psychoanalytic writing encounters the same problem that is at the very heart of the conscious/unconscious dichotomy. This dilemma enters into all attempts to describe what supposedly happens along the interface between the two divergent registers at the moment of change from one to the other. Monique David-Ménard...(展开全部)

Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the so-called 'Russian flu' killed around 1 million people across Europe in 1889-93 - including the second-in-line to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. The Spanish flu of 1918, meanwhile, would kill 50 million people - nearly 3% of the world's population. Here, Mark Honigsbaum outlines the his...(展开全部)

Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From pneumonic plague in LA and ‘parrot fever’ in Argentina to the more recent AIDS, SARS and Ebol...(展开全部)

In the English-speaking psychoanalytic world, few diagnostic categories are as controversial as hysteria. This concept, widely held to reflect outmoded cultural prejudices against women, has virtually disappeared from our theoretical literature, diagnostic manuals, and training programs. However, far from being gender-bound, hysteria for Jacques Lacan represents a psychic str...(展开全部)

马克·霍尼斯鲍姆（Mark Honigsbaum），英国伦敦大学城市学院高级讲师，研究方向为医学史。曾任《观察家报》首席记者，在《柳叶刀》、Medical History等专业刊物上发表了数十篇学术书评和论文。 著有多部医学史作品，包括《与恩扎一起生活:被遗忘的英国故事和1918年的流感大流行》(被英国皇家学会提名为年度科学书籍）、《人类大瘟疫——一个世纪以来的全球性流行病》（《金融时报》2019年年度图书）等。

In the English-speaking psychoanalytic world, few diagnostic categories are as controversial as hysteria. This concept, widely held to reflect outmoded cultural prejudices against women, has virtually disappeared from our theoretical literature, diagnostic manuals, and training programs. However, far from being gender-bound, hysteria for Jacques Lacan represents a psychic str...(展开全部)