Napoleon's glands : and other ventures in biohistory / by Arno Karlen.

Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown, [1984], ©1984.

277 pages ; 22 cm

1st ed.

Includes index

1. Napoleon's glands : the Great Man's itch.--2. Goya sans syphilis : biohistory as detection.--3. What ailed poor Poe : the biohistorian as skeptic.--4. Mummy powder, mummy dust : toward a biohistory of peoples.--5. Dry bones : the unwritten past.--6. Biocatalclysm : partners in illness.--7. Global poison : the ailing biosphere.--8. The upright, the erotic : biohistory and social history.--Epilogue. The limping ape : biohistory's future

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