Darwin's Chronic Illness
Solving a 19th-Century Medical Mystery
$67.70
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
23 January 2027
Summary
The lifelong illness suffered by the great biologist Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) has been long puzzled-over and mis-diagnosed. Some diagnoses are incomplete, accounting for just a few symptoms, and some are plain wrong. Others have attributed it to psychiatric illness. Darwin’s Chronic Illness is a medical detective story: one that offers an entirely new account of this mysterious illness and a novel solution to its nature.
In the first five chapters, Adam Wilkins and John H…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197834169 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0197834167 |
| Author: | John A. Hayman, Adam S. Wilkins |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 23 January 2027 |
| Weight: | 553g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 165mm x 237mm |
John A. Hayman
John A. Hayman
John A. Hayman is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Pathology at The University of Melbourne. He is a medical graduate and specialist pathologist with over 60 years of experience in the field. His appointments include rural teaching hospitals, international and developing countries, pathologist for the Australian army reserves, and advisor to the World Health Organization. His academic research, including his PhD thesis, has focused on Charles Darwin’s illness since 2009.
Adam S. Wilkins
Adam S. Wilkins is a Guest Scientist at the Institute of Biology of Humboldt Universität, Berlin. He has worked as a PhD-level researcher, an author, and an editor, including over 20 years as Staff Editor and Editor of BioEssays. Wilkins was subsequently Editor of the commentaries column “Perspectives” for Genetics for 12 years. Writing since 1980, he has published four advanced biology texts and over 150 journal articles.
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