TY - BOOK ID - 80835546 TI - James Joyce and the Burden of Disease PY - 2010 SN - 9780813149820 0813149827 9780813118932 9780813126647 PB - Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, DB - UniCat KW - Health in literature. KW - Syphilis in literature. KW - Human body in literature. KW - Sexually transmitted diseases in literature. KW - Syphilis KW - Novelists, Irish KW - Body, Human, in literature KW - Human figure in literature KW - Treponemal pallidum infection KW - Sexually transmitted diseases KW - Treponematoses KW - Patients KW - Joyce, James, KW - Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius KW - Joyce, James KW - Dzhoĭs, Dzheĭms Avgustin Aloiziĭ KW - Džoiss, Džeimss KW - Gʻois, Gʻaims KW - Joyce, Giacomo KW - Jūyis, Jīms KW - Tzoys, Tzaiēms KW - Tzoys, Tzeēms KW - Джойс, Джеймс KW - Джойс, Джеймс Августин Алоїсуїс KW - Zhoĭs, Zheĭms KW - ג׳ויס, ג׳ײמס, KW - ג׳ויס, ג׳יימס, KW - ジョイス KW - ジェームスジョイス, KW - Health. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80835546 AB - James Joyce's near blindness, his peculiar gait, and his death from perforated ulcers are commonplace knowledge to most of his readers. But until now, most Joyce scholars have not recognized that these symptoms point to a diagnosis of syphilis. Kathleen Ferris traces Joyce's medical history as described in his correspondence, in the diaries of his brother Stanislaus, and in the memoirs of his acquaintances, to show that many of his symptoms match those of tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis which, untreated, eventually leads to paralysis. Combining literary analysis and medical detection, ER -