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:...

• 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"