Neurology and Modernity A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800–1950
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2010, 2010
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | XIII, 298 p. 7 illus online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230278004 |