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Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800-1950
Salisbury, Laura, Shail, Andrew
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Description for Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800-1950
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 311 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; MBX; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230233133
SKU
V9780230233133
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99-15
About Salisbury, Laura, Shail, Andrew
LAURA SALISBURY is RCUK Fellow in Science, Technology, and Culture and a Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published various articles on Samuel Beckett, including one on his 'aphasic' modernism. She is currently writing a book on Late Modernisms for Edinburgh University Press and researching a study of the relationships between modernism, modernity and neurological conceptions of language. ... Read more
Reviews for Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800-1950
'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 ... Read more