Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800–1950

Salisbury, Laura; Shail, Andrew

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-02-10

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230233133

DOI: 10.1057/9780230278004

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 298