The Man Who Abandoned his Wife. A Pame Story

The man who mistook his wife for a hat.

In this activity, you'll explore the different functions of the brain and how those functions sometimes go awry. You'll need your book to tackle these mind-bending neurological disorders. It immediately made me think of a patient of mine, the charming, intelligent, memoryless Jimmie G., who was admitted to our Home for the Aged near New York City early in 1975, with a cryptic transfer note sayi...

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel

Men take a proprietary view of women’s sexuality and reproductive capacity. In this chapter, we (a) argue that sexually proprietary male psychologies are evolved solutions to the adaptive problems of male reproductive competition and potential misdirection of paternal investments in species with mistakable paternity; (b) describe the complex interrelated design of mating and paternal decision r...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

A 67-year-old man who e-mails his physician.

DR SHIP: Mr S is a 67-year-old retired public service worker who lives in the Boston area with his wife. He has Medicare and indemnity insurance. Approximately 4 months ago, Mr S started to communicate by e-mail with his hospital-based primary care physician Dr G, using the hospital’s secure Internet site for patients. Previously, Mr S would call his physician with questions and leave a message...

How a Woman Can Be More Like a Man: The Dialogue Between Ischomachus and his Wife in Xenophone's Oeconomicus

The dialogue between the model Athenian landowner Ischomachus and his wife recounted in Xenophon's Oeconomicus appears to offer a rare glimpse of the inner workings of an -ordinary Athenian household and a rare portrait of an ordinary Athenian wife. Through Ischomachus's report to Socrates of a series of conversations in which he instructed his wife in her proper activities. the dialogue provid...