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

by Laura Salisbury (Author), Andrew Shail (Author), Laura Salisbury (Author), Andrew Shail (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $127.26

  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.