The Jekyll-Hyde Diagnosis: sudden transformations of personality in history and fiction Online
The late 19th-century brought a fascination with clinical conditions characterized by sudden transformation. Fugue states, dreamy seizures, and sleepwalking were but some of the diagnoses on a sprawling differential that grew not only from medical advances but literary works. In this talk, Dr. Mason, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford and author of four works of fiction, will discuss the historical context of “The Second Dr. Service,” one of the stories in newest book, A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, about a man whose unusual seizures force him to reckon not only with the limits of medical knowledge, but his very conception of his self.
Presenter: Daniel Mason, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford University School of Medicine
Brought to you by the Bay Area History of Medicine Society and UCSF Archives & Special Collections.
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- Date:
- Wednesday, Jan 20 2021
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
- Campus:
- Online
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcequrzsoGNBsYwfqgX-p-9EjxZuO05n6
- Categories:
- Archives and Special Collections
