The Neurological Patient in History

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction • L. Stephen Jacyna and Stephen T. Casper
Part One: Medicine Constructs the “Neurological Patient”
	1 The Patient’s Pitch: The Neurologist, the Tuning Fork, and Textbook Knowledge • Stephen T. Casper
	2 Neurological Patients as Experimental Subjects: Epilepsy Studies in the United States • Ellen Dwyer
Part Two: Public and Private Constructions of the “Neurological Patient”
	3 Speaking for Yourself: The Medico-Legal Aspects of Aphasia in Nineteenth-Century Britain • Marjorie Perlman Lorch
	4 The Spouse, the Neurological Patient, and Doctors • Katrina Gatley
Part Three: Patient Groups Construct the “Neurological Patient”
	5 Disappearing in Plain Sight: Public Roles of People with Dementia in the Meaning and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease • Jesse F. Ballenger
	6 The Cursing Patient: Neuropsychiatry Confronts Tourette’s Syndrome, 1825–2008 • Howard I. Kushner
Part Four: The Patient Constructs the “Neurological Patient”
	7 The Psychasthenic Poet: Robert Nichols and His Neurologists • L. Stephen Jacyna
	8 The Encephalitis Lethargica Patient as a Window on the Soul • Paul Foley
Part Five: Historians Construct the “Neurological Patient”
	9 Neuropatients in Historyland • Roger Cooter
	10 The Neurological Patient in History: A Commentary • Max Stadler
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index