Neurology and modernity: a cultural history of nervous systems, 1800-1950

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 thecultural attitudes of the period 1800-1950, exploring how and why modernity was a fundamentally nervous state. INDICE: 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 inthe 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 andthe 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23313-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 10/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés