Neurology & modernity : a cultural history of nervous systems, 1800-1950 / edited by Laura Salisbury, Andrew Shail.

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

xiii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Introduction: Neurology and Modernity--L.Salisbury&--A.Shail. PART I DISCOURSES AND DISCOVERIES Beyond the Brain: Sceptical and Satirical Responses to Galls Organology--M.K.House Neurology and the Invention of Menstruation--A.Shail Railway Spine, Nervous Excess, and the Forensic Self--J.F.Thrailkill Modernity and the Peristaltic Subject--J.Walton Sounds of Silence: Aphasiology and the Subject of Modernity--L.Salisbury I guess Im just nervous, then: Neuropathology and Edith Whartons Exploration of Interior Geographies--V.Plock Matter for Thought: The Psychon in Neurology, Psychology and American Culture, 1927-1943--M.Littlefield PART II: DISORDERS Modernism and the Two Paranoias: The Neurology of Persecution--G.Rousseau Carlyles Nervous Dyspepsia: Nervousness, Indigestion and the Experience of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain--H.Ishizuka Nerve-Vibration: Therapeutic Technologies in the 1880s and 1890s--S.Trower The Conviction of its Existence: Silas Weir Mitchell, Phantom Limbs and Phantom Bodies in Neurology and Spiritualism--A.Satz From Daniel Paul Schreber through the Dr. Phil Family: Modernity, Neurology and the Cult of the Case Study Superstar--M.A.Tata Shell Shock as a Self-Inflicted Wound, 1915-1921--J.Meyer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.