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

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-40
Beyond the Brain: Sceptical and Satirical Responses to Gall’s Organology....Pages 41-58
Neurology and the Invention of Menstruation....Pages 59-80
Carlyle’s Nervous Dyspepsia: Nervousness, Indigestion and the Experience of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain....Pages 81-95
Railway Spine, Nervous Excess and the Forensic Self....Pages 96-112
“The Conviction of its Existence”: Silas Weir Mitchell, Phantom Limbs and Phantom Bodies in Neurology and Spiritualism....Pages 113-129
Modernism and the Two Paranoias: The Neurology of Persecution....Pages 130-147
“Nerve-Vibration”: Therapeutic Technologies in the 1880s and 1890s....Pages 148-162
From Daniel Paul Schreber through the Dr. Phil Family: Modernity, Neurology and the Cult of the Case Study Superstar....Pages 163-183
“I guess I’m just nervous, then”: Neuropathology and Edith Wharton’s Exploration of Interior Geographies....Pages 184-203
Sounds of Silence: Aphasiology and the Subject of Modernity....Pages 204-230
Shell Shock as a Self-Inflicted Wound, 1915–1921....Pages 231-244
Modernity and the Peristaltic Subject....Pages 245-266
Matter for Thought: The Psychon in Neurology, Psychology and American Culture, 1927–1943....Pages 267-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-298