Sabtu, 15 Januari 2011

An Anatomy of Addiction

An Anatomy of Addiction
Author: Howard Markel
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0375423303

From acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel, author of When Germs Travel, the astonishing account of the years-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud, young, ambitious neurologist, and William Halsted, the equally young, pathfinding surgeon. Download An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Markel writes of the physical and emotional damage caused by the then-heralded wonder drug, and how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it-or because of it. One became the father of psychoanalysis; the other, of modern surgery.
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Both men were practicing medicine at the same time in the 1880s: Freud at the Vienna General Hospital, Halsted at New York's Bellevue Hospital. Markel writes that Freud began to experiment with cocaine as a way of studying its therapeutic uses-as an Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. An Anatomy of Addiction medical books pdf for free. Markel writes that Freud began to experiment with cocaine as a way of studying its therapeutic uses-as an



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