Michel Foucault, Siddhartha Mukherjee and Raskolnikov's fever dream
Hello, world! I'm currently re-reading two books - The Gene by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault. Mukherjee is my favourite writer - he renders into magical verse the most scientific and technical of subjects that one could possibly encounter - the turn of phrase, the use of intelligent metaphors, the command over language - is simply riveting. Foucault is .. well, Foucault! Both books (The Gene and Madness and Civilization) devote a great amount of mindspace to the subject of Schizophrenia - which is quite telling of the relative importance of this subject among academics and philosophers who are not psychiatrists or psychologists.
