Neurology and Modernity
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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

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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.

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Year
2010
ISBN
9780230278004

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Copyright Acknowledgements
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Beyond the Brain: Sceptical and Satirical Responses to Gall’s Organology
  9. 2 Neurology and the Invention of Menstruation
  10. 3 Carlyle’s Nervous Dyspepsia: Nervousness, Indigestion and the Experience of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  11. 4 Railway Spine, Nervous Excess and the Forensic Self
  12. 5 “The Conviction of its Existence”: Silas Weir Mitchell, Phantom Limbs and Phantom Bodies in Neurology and Spiritualism
  13. 6 Modernism and the Two Paranoias: The Neurology of Persecution
  14. 7 “Nerve-Vibration”: Therapeutic Technologies in the 1880s and 1890s
  15. 8 From Daniel Paul Schreber through the Dr. Phil Family: Modernity, Neurology and the Cult of the Case Study Superstar
  16. 9 “I guess I’m just nervous, then”: Neuropathology and Edith Wharton’s Exploration of Interior Geographies
  17. 10 Sounds of Silence: Aphasiology and the Subject of Modernity
  18. 11 Shell Shock as a Self-Inflicted Wound, 1915–1921
  19. 12 Modernity and the Peristaltic Subject
  20. 13 Matter for Thought: The Psychon in Neurology, Psychology and American Culture, 1927–1943
  21. Index