Tim Cassedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1593282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Cassedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassedy |
| SIGNATURE | CASSEDY T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Minimismal Monsters in Our Blood and Brains
Fifty years before germ theory revolutionized Western medicine, a linguist named John Gilchrist became convinced that his longstanding mental illness was caused by a microbial infection of his brain, and that microscopic pathogens cause most of the world's diseases. The book that he wrote in 1833 to promote this theory is the earliest published germ theory of mental illness, and one of the earliest published germ theories per se. The work, portio…
Definition
Definition Tim Cassedy (bio) As an enslaved teenager in Baltimore in the 1830s, Frederick Douglass kept hearing about something called "abolition"—a word whose meaning he did not know. "If a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did anything very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder," he observed, "it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition. Hearing the word in this connection very often, I set about learning what it meant." He looked up …
A Dictionary Which We Do Not Want
Definition
Definition Tim Cassedy (bio) As an enslaved teenager in Baltimore in the 1830s, Frederick Douglass kept hearing about something called "abolition"—a word whose meaning he did not know. "If a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did anything very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder," he observed, "it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition. Hearing the word in this connection very often, I set about learning what it meant." He looked up …
A Dictionary Which We Do Not Want
A Dictionary Which We Do Not Want
Minimismal Monsters in Our Blood and Brains
Fifty years before germ theory revolutionized Western medicine, a linguist named John Gilchrist became convinced that his longstanding mental illness was caused by a microbial infection of his brain, and that microscopic pathogens cause most of the world's diseases. The book that he wrote in 1833 to promote this theory is the earliest published germ theory of mental illness, and one of the earliest published germ theories per se. The work, portio…
Definition
Definition Tim Cassedy (bio) As an enslaved teenager in Baltimore in the 1830s, Frederick Douglass kept hearing about something called "abolition"—a word whose meaning he did not know. "If a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did anything very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder," he observed, "it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition. Hearing the word in this connection very often, I set about learning what it meant." He looked up …
History (3 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · American History and Culture (1 work) · Classics (1 work) · Context (archaeology) (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Germ theory of disease (1 work) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (1 work) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (1 work)