The Neurological Patient in History

Essays from noted contributors trace the evolution of the neurological patient's role, treatment, and place in the history of medicine.

List of contents

Introduction
The Patient's Pitch: The Neurologist, the Tuning Fork, and Textbook Knowledge
Neurological Patients as Experimental Subjects: Epilepsy Studies in the United States
Speaking for Yourself: The Medico-Legal Aspects of Aphasia in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The Spouse, the Neurological Patient, and Doctors
Disappearing in Plain Sight: Public Roles of People with Dementia in the Meaning and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease
The Cursing Patient: Neuropsychiatry Confronts Tourette's Syndrome, 1825-2008
The Psychasthenic Poet: Robert Nichols and His Neurologists
The Encephalitis Lethargica Patient as a Window on the Soul
Neuropatients in Historyland
The Neurological Patient in History: A Commentary
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

About the author

L. Stephen Jacyna, Stephen T. Casper

Product details

• Authors: Professor Stephen (Royalty Account) Casper, Stephen Casper, Stephen T. Casper, L Stephen Jacyna, L. Stephen Jacyna
• Assisted by: Stephen T. Casper (Editor), L. Stephen Jacyna (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781580464758
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-475-8
• No. of pages: 274
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 410 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History; Rochester Studies in Medical H; Rochester Studies in Medical History; Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine