Creative Malady - Illness in the Lives and Minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In this highly provocative book, originally published in 1974, Sir George Pickering, former Professor of Medicine, examines the role of illness in the minds and lives of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Freud, Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Baker Eddy. Creative Malady is a masterpiece of biographical detective work.