Guy de Maupassant: aspectos médicos de su creativa y desenfrenada vida

Background: The French writer Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the most important story-tellers of all times. In his short life, he produced relevant works which are full of interesting medical descriptions, as sleep palsy and unconscious memory, depicted on his famous tale The Horla. Furtherm...

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Autores principales: Miranda C,Marcelo, Roa V,Natalia, Bustamante C,M. Leonor
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Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2012
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720120004000162013-11-06Guy de Maupassant: aspectos médicos de su creativa y desenfrenada vidaMiranda C,MarceloRoa V,NataliaBustamante C,M. Leonor Medicine in literature Neurology Psychiatry Background: The French writer Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the most important story-tellers of all times. In his short life, he produced relevant works which are full of interesting medical descriptions, as sleep palsy and unconscious memory, depicted on his famous tale The Horla. Furthermore, many of his novels and tales contain precise and very insightful descriptions of physicians, many of whom he contacted because of suffering severe migraine. Maupassant became psychotic on his last years as a result of neurosyphilis and died in an asylum. In this review, we analyze some medical aspects of his intense life and provide references of unknown medical descriptions in his works.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.140 n.4 20122012-04-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872012000400016es10.4067/S0034-98872012000400016
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language Spanish / Castilian
topic Medicine in literature
Neurology
Psychiatry
spellingShingle Medicine in literature
Neurology
Psychiatry
Miranda C,Marcelo
Roa V,Natalia
Bustamante C,M. Leonor
Guy de Maupassant: aspectos médicos de su creativa y desenfrenada vida
description Background: The French writer Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the most important story-tellers of all times. In his short life, he produced relevant works which are full of interesting medical descriptions, as sleep palsy and unconscious memory, depicted on his famous tale The Horla. Furthermore, many of his novels and tales contain precise and very insightful descriptions of physicians, many of whom he contacted because of suffering severe migraine. Maupassant became psychotic on his last years as a result of neurosyphilis and died in an asylum. In this review, we analyze some medical aspects of his intense life and provide references of unknown medical descriptions in his works.
author Miranda C,Marcelo
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Bustamante C,M. Leonor
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title Guy de Maupassant: aspectos médicos de su creativa y desenfrenada vida
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