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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... operation had to be put on hold for nearly an hour to allow him to compose his nerves . After what happened in that operation Hume felt he could not lead a second operation , which was led instead by Guy Blackburn , Hume's assistant at ...
... operation had to be put on hold for nearly an hour to allow him to compose his nerves . After what happened in that operation Hume felt he could not lead a second operation , which was led instead by Guy Blackburn , Hume's assistant at ...
... operation was a relatively simple procedure whereas a bile duct repair operation was of a quite different order in its complexity and skill.7 On 23 June 1953 , in Boston , Cattell performed a complicated surgical procedure on Eden . On ...
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