Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800-1950

By Andrew Shail and Laura Salisbury

Book Overview

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.Littlefiel

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349313246
• ISBN13: 9781349313242
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"