In Sickness and in Power: Illnesses in Heads of Government During the Last 100 YearsBloomsbury Academic, 30 may 2008 - 420 páginas The course of modern world history has been critically shaped by the physical and mental illnesses of heads of state, sometimes in the public eye but usually in secrecy. Democratic politicians as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Pompidou, Mitterrand, Blair, George W. Bush, Chirac, and Sharon all lied about their health. Between 1906 and 2008 seven Presidents are judged to have been mentally ill while in office: Theodore Roosevelt (bipolar disorder), Taft (breathing-related sleep disorder), Wilson (major depressive disorder), Coolidge (major depressive disorder), Hoover (major depressive disorder), Johnson (bipolar disorder), and Nixon (alcohol abuse). Many despots-such as Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Robert Mugabe-have been branded by the press and public opinion as suffering mental illnesses. Lord Owen argues neither Hitler nor Stalin were mad in any sense the medical profession recognizes (whereas Mussolini and Mao had depression, possibly bipolar disorder). |
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... Shah's government . But it was false . People who have a tendency to vacillate very rarely change and underneath he was still indecisive and weak and my big mistake was to fall for the ... Shah was tolerating THE SHAH'S SECRET ILLNESS 205.
... Shah's case there was such an interaction . Flandrin's account of the Shah in his last few months in Tehran leaves no doubt that he was exhausted and under great stress . Visitors describe him as distraught and depressed , asking ...
... Shah's last days but Flandrin , the Egyptian doctors and the Shah's family felt he should have the treatment . So Kean left on 31 March for the United States and Flandrin began to care for the Shah again . It was a brave and generous ...
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