The neurological patient in history / edited by L. Stephen Jacyna and Stephen T. Casper.

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, [2012], ©2012.

vii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

The patient's pitch : the neurologist, the tuning fork, and textbook knowledge / Stephen T. Casper -- Neurological patients as experimental subjects : epilepsy studies in the United States / Ellen Dwyer -- Speaking for yourself : the medico-legal aspects of aphasia in nineteenth-century Britain / Marjorie Perlman Lorch -- The spouse, the neurological patient, and doctors / Katrina Gatley -- Disappearing in plain sight : public roles of people with dementia in the meaning and politics of Alzheimer's disease / Jesse F. Ballenger -- The cursing patient : neuropsychiatry confronts Tourette's syndrome, 1825-2008 / Howard I. Kushner -- The psychasthenic poet : Robert Nichols and his neurologists / L. Stephen Jacyna -- The encephalitis lethargica patient as a window on the soul / Paul Foley -- Neuropatients in historyland / Roger Cooter -- The neurological patient in history : a commentary / Max Stadler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.