Letters, p.84
Letters, page 84
Hanlon, Roger, 637
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 65
Harris, Sam, 627
Hart, Mickey, 493
Hart, Sergiu, 655, 655n
Harvey, William, 340–1, 340n
Hawthornden Prize, 254
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 684
Haycraft, Colin, 202, 220, 254, 276, 340, 420, 424
Haydn, Joseph, 205
Hayes, Bill, 649, 650, 650n, 652, 666, 668n
Head, Henry, 117n, 260, 392, 392n, 611–13
headache clinic, Montefiore, 124, 132, 134, 134n, 336n
headaches, premonitory, 343
Heidegger, Martin, 544
Heidtmann, Howard, 171
Helfgott, Ben, 578, 578n, 579
Helmholtz, Hermann, 397, 397n, 401
Henryk-Gutt, Rita, 189
Herrick, Michael, 596
Herrmann, Christian, Jr., 60
Herz, Rachel, 547
Herzog, Werner, 476n
Hess, Walter, 180
hiccups, 32, 32n, 647
Highlands Hospital, 182, 182n, 184, 471, 499
Hilton, James, 9n
Himmelhoch, Jonathan, 569, 569n
Hindemith, Paul, 96
Hippocratic tradition, 327
Hobbes, Thomas, 390
Hobson, Mr. (Dept. of Motor Vehicles), 71
Hoffmann, Roald, 543, 549, 598
holidays, in America, 30–1
Holmes, Sherlock, 287, 446
homosexuality, xiii, 3, 91, 116, 237, 381, 666, 676, 686
gay civil rights, 129n
gay life, 14, 26n
Horgan, John, 576, 657, 657n
Horovitz, Anna and Joseph, 623, 623n, 676
Horowitz, Alexandra, 664
house calls, 540
Hubel, David, 462, 462n
Hughes, James, 198
Hughes, Ted, 353n
Huizinga, Johan, 453
Hume, David, 290, 402, 603, 625, 625n, 627, 678
hunting, 43
Hurricane Sandy, 665n
Huxley, Aldous, 33, 34n, 419, 574
Huxley, Julian, 443, 443n
Huxley, Thomas, 443n
Hyden, Holgar, 33
Hymson, T. J., 566, 566n
I
Ibsen, Henrik, 117, 204
influenza epidemic, 313
Inglis, Margie, 220
institutional settings compared, 652–4
intelligences, multiple, 553–4, 553n
invertebrate nervous systems, 669, 672, 687
Isaacson, Robert, 432–3, 433n, 589
see also colorblindness
Island of the Colorblind, The, 508, 517, 533n, 536, 539, 588, 632
Israel, 129, 129n, 205n, 210, 212, 217, 236, 267, 330, 466, 528, 671, 690
Ivins, Marsha, 492, 492n, 605
J
Jackson, John Hughlings, 41, 41n, 63, 143, 369
James, Harriett, 581
James, Henry, 29, 64n, 182
James, William, 64n, 171, 418, 418n, 474, 511, 562, 569, 590, 591, 591n, 599, 603
Jamison, Kay Redfield, 523, 523n, 567, 568n, 569n, 635
Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 301, 301n, 454
Jellinek, Michael, 683
Jennifer F., 479
Jewish belief, 24, 551
Jewish culture and customs, 19–20, 21–2, 22n, 53, 75–6, 90, 122, 130, 234–8
see also shiva
John Z., 161
Johnson, Samuel, 224, 268, 419, 419n, 625
Jones, Helen, 438, 438n
Jones, Wood, 647
Jordan, I. King, 448n
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 185, 400, 400n
Joyce, James, 89, 89n, 252n
K
Kabbalah, 296–7, 324
Kallman, Chester, 191n, 225n
Kandel, Eric, 644, 665
Kant, Immanuel, 222, 390, 439, 485, 626–8
Katzman, Robert, 80n, 344, 344n, 365, 367
Kazantzakis, Nikos, 126, 126n
Kazin, Alfred, 65
Kekulé, August, 576
Keller, Evelyn Fox, 414
Keller, Helen, 464, 639
Kennedy, John F., 26, 55n
Kermode, Frank, 210, 563, 564n
Keynes, John Maynard, 462, 554, 563, 627
Kiell, Paul J., 579
Kierkegaard, Søren, 287, 288, 354, 358, 393
kinetic melody, 278, 389, 447, 612
Kipling, Rudyard, 379n, 468
Kissinger, Henry, 529
Kitay, Mike, 99
Kleene, Steven, 548
Klein, Georg, 643
Kleinzahler, August, 99n, 379n
Kletti, Roy, 603
Koch, Christof, 584, 585, 585n, 588, 588n, 590–3, 603, 604, 687
Korey, Saul, 179
Korn, Eric, 24, 39n, 329, 329n, 385, 385n, 400, 404–5, 404n, 428, 432, 443, 488
Korsakov’s (Korsakoff’s) syndrome, 262, 262n, 390–2, 547
see also amnesia
Koven, Barnet, 565
Kurtis, Jonathan, 316
L
laboratory work, love for, 499, 499n
Labra, Hugo, 577
Laing, R. D., 133
Lake Titicaca, 629, 631
Lan, David, 334–6
Land, Edwin, 463, 463n
Landau, Dave (Uncle Tungsten), 213–14
Landau, Helena (Aunt Len), 3, 4, 4n, 6, 14, 14n, 30, 34, 112, 123, 212–14, 348, 349n, 356
Landau, Marcus (grandfather), 115, 509
landscapes of disease, 178, 200, 210, 277, 368, 598
Lane, Harlan, 506
Lane, Nick, 685
languagelessness (alinguals), 464, 529–30
Lardner, Ring, 125
Lariam, 601–2
Lasker, Larry, 373n
Lawrence, D. H, 216n, 217, 224, 226, 230, 241, 251n
Layzer, David, 485
L-dopa, 148–54, 149n, 158, 160, 163–6, 178, 180, 185–90, 197–8, 201, 209, 301, 305, 305n, 307–10, 319, 323, 366, 370, 400, 436, 451, 487, 505, 538, 612, 659
Lear, Jonathan, 484
learning, 33, 33n, 446, 669
learning styles, 232–4
Lederberg, Joshua, 414–15
Lee, David, 630
Lee, Lance, 353, 353n
leg injury, 272–86, 319, 347n, 372, 458, 466, 589
Leg to Stand On, A, 399
writing of, 359, 386
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 209, 248, 285, 390, 543
Leipzig, 658
Leontiev, Aleksei, 342, 392
Le Quesne, Leslie, 28
Lesser, Wendy, 549
Lettvin, Jerry, 462
Levi-Montalcini, Rita, 617, 625
Levin, Grant, 19, 23, 26, 30n, 33, 39, 40
Levin, Revella, 659, 660, 661, 673
Levine, Laurie, 579
Lewes, George Henry, 196, 196n
Lewis, Meriwether, 568
Lewy body disease, 366n
Libet, Benjamin, 603
Liebig, Justus von, 553, 554
life support, 331–3
Lindenbaum, Richard, 217, 226, 328
Listener, The, 208, 209–10, 215, 224, 229, 232, 232n, 262, 329n, 395
letter to editor, 232
see also Wilmers, Mary-Kay
Liszt, Franz, 95
Little Sisters of the Poor, 361n, 375–7, 552, 609–11, 653
Liveing, Edward, 128, 143, 526, 526n, 527
Locke, John, 176, 229, 364, 498, 498n
London Review of Books, 390n, 394, 395, 399, 400–1
“Lost Mariner, The” (Jimmie), 263, 314n, 390n, 395, 397, 399, 424, 424n, 431, 610
Lowell, Robert, 524
LSD, 105, 113, 419n, 252n, 576, 588, 630
luminous seawater, 54, 54n
Luria, A. R., 44n, 160, 174, 174n, 242, 261, 262, 262n, 263, 274, 282, 284, 284n, 286, 292, 293, 299, 307, 328, 329n, 342, 367, 391–2, 393–4, 416, 444, 444n, 460, 484, 498, 510, 534, 589, 660
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 296, 296n
M
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 72n
Mackenzie, Ivy, 454, 455, 455n
Magnani, Franco, 460–1
Maguire, John, 448
Mahler, Gustav, 195
Malamud, Bernard, 65
Manette, Dr., 88, 88n, 152
manic depression, 44, 78, 123, 170, 523, 523n, 635
see also bipolar disorder
Manitoulin Island, 363–4, 663
Mann, Thomas, 196, 271, 443n
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The, xii, 110n, 320, 368n, 390n, 392n, 395, 398, 410, 413, 423, 429, 433, 480, 505n, 514, 680
Mapstone, Elizabeth, 541
Marey, Étienne-Jules, 586, 590n
Marie Geraldine Therese, Sister (LSP), 609
marine biology, 20, 22, 54, 62, 86n
see also cephalopods
Markham, Charles, 60, 60n, 69, 69n
Marshall, John C., 433
Marshall, Penny, 470n, 471, 474
Martin, James Purdon, 339, 339n
mathematics, 226–7, 256
Mathews-Younes, Anne, 658n
Mathias, Jane, 497, 497n
Maugham, W. Somerset, 32, 116
McClintock, Barbara, 414–18, 414n
McCormick, Kenneth, 246, 246n, 247n
McDonald, Ken, 578
McEwen, Dr., 200
McGinn, Colin, 593, 687
meaningfulness in life, 295, 296, 322, 484–5, 486, 522n, 627
Medicaid, 380, 380n
medical ethics, 331–2, 557–61, 558n
medical school, 326–7
melanoma, 623–6, 645, 675–80
Melville, Herman, 90
memory, 33, 241, 261, 460, 525–6, 526n, 532, 564, 618, 620, 621–2, 669
forgotten childhood, 113, 114, 184
repressed, 582–3
see also amnesia, Korsakov’s syndrome, savant talents, smell
Mendeleev, Dmitri, 396–7, 417, 543
Mendelson, Edward, 191, 291
Mengele, Josef, 425
Merjanian, Steve, 65n, 577
Merritt, Houston, 56, 56n
Messeloff, Charles, 153, 153n, 159, 163, 164, 166, 179, 188, 203
Mesulam, M.-Marsel, 434
metaphoric nature of description, 229
Mexico, 45–6, 58, 77, 339n, 682n
see also Oaxaca Journal
Meyer, Michael, 204
Meyrowitz, Joshua, 448n
Middlesex Hospital, 23, 23n, 28, 181n, 273
Midonick, Henrietta, 226n
migraine, 129, 133, 137, 189–90, 194, 200, 420, 429, 436, 438, 497, 505, 519, 526n, 536, 566, 575, 588–9, 629, 629n
Migraine (book)
OS appraisal of, 160, 200
writing and publishing of, 128, 133–7, 139–41, 167, 188
military service, 3, 18
Mill, James, 590
Mill, John Stuart, 559
Miller, Jonathan, 10n, 14, 24, 24n, 25, 25n, 28n, 39n, 57, 58n, 62, 75n, 99n, 116, 122, 134, 140, 164, 174, 175n, 201–2, 229, 246, 254, 351, 362, 397, 432, 488, 525n, 526n, 546, 552, 627
