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Pathology
Investigators at University of Oregon publish new data on pathology
July 7th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "A future revolutionary, Alesha Karamazov is, at nineteen, an inexperienced boy who lives in a monastery and who has been considered strange since birth." "Fedor Dostoevskii endows him with hysteria-then a serious psychopathology with convulsions that were clinically seen as analogous to epilepsy, the morbus sacer from which Dostoevskii himself suffered. Recognized as an epidemic problem, hysteria in this novel is elaborately deployed as a symbol of Russia's social ills and the underlying cause of far-reaching personality changes in Alesha (for better or worse), preparing him for a heroic destiny," wrote J.L. Rice and...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-07-07)
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