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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Salisbury, Laura
• Shail, Andrew

Titel

Neurology and modernity : A cultural history of nervous systems, 1800-1950 [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2010

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Copyright Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Beyond the Brain: Sceptical and Satirical Responses to Gall's Organology; 2 Neurology and the Invention of Menstruation; 3 Carlyle's Nervous Dyspepsia: Nervousness, Indigestion and the Experience of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain; 4 Railway Spine, Nervous Excess and the Forensic Self; 5 "The Conviction of its Existence": Silas Weir Mitchell, Phantom Limbs and Phantom Bodies in Neurology and Spiritualism; 6 Modernism and the Two Paranoias: The Neurology of Persecution
• 7 "Nerve-Vibration": Therapeutic Technologies in the 1880s and 1890s8 From Daniel Paul Schreber through the Dr. Phil Family: Modernity, Neurology and the Cult of the Case Study Superstar; 9 "I guess I'm just nervous, then": Neuropathology and Edith Wharton's Exploration of Interior Geographies; 10 Sounds of Silence: Aphasiology and the Subject of Modernity; 11 Shell Shock as a Self-Inflicted Wound, 1915-1921; 12 Modernity and the Peristaltic Subject; 13 Matter for Thought: The Psychon in Neurology, Psychology and American Culture, 1927-1943; Index
• 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.
• English