He settles in the seaport town of Bouville to finish his research on the life of an 18th-century political figure, the Marquis de Rollebon. He has no friends and is out of touch with family, and often resigns himself to eavesdropping on other people's conversations and examining their actions from a distance. Antoine Roquentin – The protagonist of the novel, Antoine is a former adventurer who has been living alone in Bouville for three years.The novel has been translated into English by Lloyd Alexander as The Diary of Antoine Roquentin and by Robert Baldick as Nausea. Sartre's original title for the novel before publication was Melancholia. Roquentin's growing alienation and disillusionment coincide with an increasingly intense experience of revulsion, which he calls 'the nausea', in which the people and things around him seem to lose all their familiar and recognizable qualities. It comprises the thoughts and subjective experiences-in a personal diary format-of Antoine Roquentin, a melancholic and socially isolated intellectual who is residing in Bouville ostensibly for the purpose of completing a biography on a historical figure. The novel takes place in 'Bouville' ( homophone of Boue-ville, literally, 'Mud town') a town similar to Le Havre. And because many children are afflicted with unexplained nausea and vomiting, a chapter devoted to pediatric patients is also included.Nausea ( French: La Nausée) is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. Furthermore, the book is enhanced by chapters on the pathophysiology of nausea, the pathophysiology of vomiting, the physiological changes in the brain during nausea and vomiting, and the psychological underpinnings of nausea and vomiting. Various treatment modalities are presented and organized in terms of drug treatments, electrical stimulation devices, and dietary therapy and nutritional support. It also reviews how disorders of the abdominal wall, the endocrine system, and autonomic and central nervous systems can contribute to nausea and vomiting syndromes that can be difficult to diagnose.

Because the majority of causes of nausea and vomiting arise from disorders of the gastrointestinal system, the text emphasizes the GI system by organ from esophagus to colon. This volume provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art text for health care professionals who are interested in the diagnosis and treatment of nausea and vomiting.

Nausea the book