Screen LibraryNeurology 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 the cultural attitudes of the period 1800-1950, exploring how and why...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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. 'This excellent collection opens up a fascinating area of discourse in relation to the modern area, moving the debate away from established thinking on 'nerves' in terms of neurasthenia, shell-shock and neurosis,and investigating a much wider range of issues -- indeed a whole a culture of nervousness - informed by the new understandings of neurology. The essays range across a variety of fascinating topics (speech disorders, peristalsis, vibration-cures, paranoia), exploring the dethroned modern self, wired from within and without to its physical and social environment. For the student of bod |
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Electronic book text. Originally published in: 2010. |
| Carrier Form: | 312 p. : 7 b&w, ill. |
| Audience: | Undergraduate. |
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9780230233133 9780230278004 : 0230278000 : |
| CLC: | R741 |
| 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 Neuro |