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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... hubris is defined : ' But when desire irrationally drags us toward pleasures and rules within us , its rule is called excess [ hubris ] . ' 13 Plato saw this ' rule of desire ' as something irrational that drags men into doing the wrong ...
... hubris is defined : ' But when desire irrationally drags us toward pleasures and rules within us , its rule is called excess [ hubris ] . ' 13 Plato saw this ' rule of desire ' as something irrational that drags men into doing the wrong ...
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... hubris started to develop in 1999 during the Kosovo crisis and built up over Sierra Leone and through the general election in 2001 until 9/11 . With George W. Bush there is a prima facie case that his hubris syndrome developed quickly ...
... hubris started to develop in 1999 during the Kosovo crisis and built up over Sierra Leone and through the general election in 2001 until 9/11 . With George W. Bush there is a prima facie case that his hubris syndrome developed quickly ...
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... hubris syndrome . Against past and present indications of the damage that hubris syndrome may be doing to a leader's rational decision - making , it seems wise not just for classical philosophers , playwrights and historians to study hubris ...
... hubris syndrome . Against past and present indications of the damage that hubris syndrome may be doing to a leader's rational decision - making , it seems wise not just for classical philosophers , playwrights and historians to study hubris ...
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Prime Minister Edens illness and Suez | 109 |
President Kennedys health | 141 |
The Shahs secret illness | 191 |
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