Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.

The Representation of Instinctive Homosexuality and Immoral Narcissism in Gide’s The Immoralist (1902) and Mann’s Death in Venice (1912)

In her article "The Representation of Instinctive Homosexuality and Immoral Narcissism in Gide’s The Immoralist (1902) and Mann’s Death in Venice (1912)" Louise Willis examines two early literary representations of homosexuality in André Gide's The Immoralist (1902) and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice (1912). She reads them with fin-de-siècle sexological theory, mainly Freud's Three Essays on the...

"Medicalisation of falling in love": medical students' responses to Thomas Mann's The Black Swan.

The value of implementing literature in medical education is widely accepted. The initial responses of medical students to Thomas Mann's short story The Black Swan are described and their resources for making sense of the story are presented. Their written responses revealed that the students interpreted the story mainly through a medical framework and were capable of understanding the story's ...

More than just Death in Venice: Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine

comprehend the subtleties of the history of sexuality, and its diverse psychological profiles: protean in sexuality's ability to disguise and transform itself while appearing as merely another internalized habit. So it was for the erotic Mann, who indulged his secret habit every week, every day, almost every hour of his life from early adulthood, and then retired, Kant-like, to the daily sereni...

Risk Factors for Neonatal Mortality at St Camille Hospital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Background: Neonatal mortality remains a public health concern in developing countries such as Burkina Faso. Improving the survival rate of newborns requires a good knowledge of the current situation. This study aimed at determining the risk factors for neonatal mortality in the Neonatology Department of Saint Camille Hospital of Ouagadougou (HOSCO - Hôpital Saint ...