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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Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 Years David Owen. Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt was a man of phenomenal energy . He was Vice President to William McKinley , who was assassinated on 14 September 1901 . Roosevelt ...
Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 Years David Owen. Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt was a man of phenomenal energy . He was Vice President to William McKinley , who was assassinated on 14 September 1901 . Roosevelt ...
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... Roosevelt's political life story particularly important to this book is that he spent all his years in high ... Roosevelt because he did not feel disabled and was determined not to appear handicapped . Roosevelt was practically never ...
... Roosevelt's political life story particularly important to this book is that he spent all his years in high ... Roosevelt because he did not feel disabled and was determined not to appear handicapped . Roosevelt was practically never ...
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... Roosevelt had to be given digitalis . * It was only after McIntire had convened three special boards of medical advisers on 30 and 31 March and 1 April 1944 that he reluctantly agreed to its being used , and that was only after Bruenn ...
... Roosevelt had to be given digitalis . * It was only after McIntire had convened three special boards of medical advisers on 30 and 31 March and 1 April 1944 that he reluctantly agreed to its being used , and that was only after Bruenn ...
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Prime Minister Edens illness and Suez | 109 |
President Kennedys health | 141 |
The Shahs secret illness | 191 |
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