Neurology and modernity : a cultural history of nervous systems, 1800-1950
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Neurology and modernity : a cultural history of nervous systems, 1800-1950
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization. This volume untangles the mutual dependencies of scientific neurology and the cultural attitudes of the period 1800-1950, exploring how and why modernity was a fundamentally nervous state.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction
- L.Salisbury & A.Shail Beyond the Brain: Sceptical and Satirical Responses to Gall's Organology
- M.K.House Neurology and the Invention of Menstruation
- A.Shail Carlyle's Nervous Dyspepsia: Nervousness, Indigestion and the Experience of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- H.Ishizuka Railway Spine, Nervous Excess, and the Forensic Self
- J.F.Thrailkill 'The Conviction of its Existence:' Silas Weir Mitchell, Phantom Limbs and Phantom Bodies in Neurology and Spiritualism
- A.Satz Modernism and the Two Paranoias: The Neurology of Persecution
- G.Rousseau 'Nerve-Vibration': Therapeutic Technologies in the 1880s and 1890s
- S.Trower From Daniel Paul Schreber through the Dr. Phil Family: Modernity, Neurology and the Cult of the Case Study Superstar
- M.A.Tata 'I guess I'm just nervous, then': Neuropathology and Edith Wharton's Exploration of Interior Geographies
- V.Plock Sounds of Silence: Aphasiology and the Subject of Modernity
- L.Salisbury Shell Shock as a Self-Inflicted Wound, 1915-1921
- J.Meyer Modernity and the Peristaltic Subject
- J.Walton Matter for Thought: The Psychon in Neurology, Psychology and American Culture, 1927-1943
- M.Littlefield
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