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Charcot in Morocco
Charcot
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Description for Charcot in Morocco
Paperback. Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot's travel diary of his 1887 trip to Morocco, which presents his personal reflections on the "Orient" and its inhabitants. Translator(s): Gelfand, Toby. Num Pages: 144 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
Charcot in Morocco is the first-ever publication of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot's travel diary of his 1887 trip to Morocco. Considered the father of neuropathology, Charcot (1825-1893) is a seminal character in the history of neurology and psychology. His Moroccan travel diary includes his "objective" observations of the local Jewish community, which only fortified his assumptions about the relationship between race and neuropathology. These became a conspicuous feature of his ideas about the hereditary origins of nervous ailments. His ideas - taught as doctrine to a vast audience, including a young Sigmund Freud - reveal the convergence of clinical observation and ... Read more
Charcot in Morocco is the first-ever publication of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot's travel diary of his 1887 trip to Morocco. Considered the father of neuropathology, Charcot (1825-1893) is a seminal character in the history of neurology and psychology. His Moroccan travel diary includes his "objective" observations of the local Jewish community, which only fortified his assumptions about the relationship between race and neuropathology. These became a conspicuous feature of his ideas about the hereditary origins of nervous ailments. His ideas - taught as doctrine to a vast audience, including a young Sigmund Freud - reveal the convergence of clinical observation and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Ottawa, Canada
ISBN
9780776607740
SKU
V9780776607740
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About Charcot
Toby Gelfand, PhD, is the Jason A. Hannah Professor of History of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He has published extensively on the history of medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, particularly on the contribution of Jean-Martin Charcot and his relationship with Sigmund Freud. He is the co-author, with Christopher G. Goetz and Michel Bonduelle, of the definitive biography ... Read more
Reviews for Charcot in Morocco
"Charcot in Morocco is a brilliant and important project, which I am delighted is now available to all scholars interested in the relationship between psychiatry and ethnology. A wonderful piece of work, which is also, by the way, a beautiful book." - Dr. Sander L. Gilman. Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University