In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 YearsMethuen, 2008 - 420 páginas This study of illness in heads of government between 1901 and 2007 considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the process of government and decision-making, leading to acts of folly, in the sense of stupidity or rashness. |
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... June 1961 , his back problems having been exacerbated during a visit to Canada the previous month . Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna , June 1961 . Hans Kraus , Kennedy's White House back doctor and skilled rock climber . Kennedy ...
... June 1961 , his back problems having been exacerbated during a visit to Canada the previous month . Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna , June 1961 . Hans Kraus , Kennedy's White House back doctor and skilled rock climber . Kennedy ...
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... June at Chartwell , by which time his condition had deteriorated . His speech was more dysarthric , his left hand weaker and his gait more unsteady . Between examinations by Brain on 28 June and 3 July Churchill had had a period when he ...
... June at Chartwell , by which time his condition had deteriorated . His speech was more dysarthric , his left hand weaker and his gait more unsteady . Between examinations by Brain on 28 June and 3 July Churchill had had a period when he ...
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... June was certainly not ready mentally or physically to face any such storm in that summer of 1961. He was becoming reliant on Jacobson's amphetamine injections . He had also refused Jacobson's offer to step aside , made , Jacobson ...
... June was certainly not ready mentally or physically to face any such storm in that summer of 1961. He was becoming reliant on Jacobson's amphetamine injections . He had also refused Jacobson's offer to step aside , made , Jacobson ...
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Prime Minister Edens illness and Suez | 109 |
President Kennedys health | 141 |
The Shahs secret illness | 191 |
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