The neurological patient in history
By: edited by L. Stephen Jacyna and Stephen T. Casper
Series: Rochester studies in medical history; Rochester studies in medical history
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781580464123
Subjects: Patients; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Nervous System Diseases; Neurology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The patient's pitch : the neurologist, the tuning fork, and textbook knowledge / Stephen T. Casper; title: Neurological patients as experimental subjects : epilepsy studies in the United States / Ellen Dwyer; title: Speaking for yourself : the medico-legal aspects of aphasia in nineteenth-century Britain / Marjorie Perlman Lorch; title: The spouse, the neurological patient, and doctors / Katrina Gatley; title: Disappearing in plain sight : public roles of people with dementia in the meaning and politics of Alzheimer's disease / Jesse F. Ballenger; title: The cursing patient : neuropsychiatry confronts Tourette's syndrome, 1825-2008 / Howard I. Kushner; title: The psychasthenic poet : Robert Nichols and his neurologists / L. Stephen Jacyna; title: The encephalitis lethargica patient as a window on the soul / Paul Foley; title: Neuropatients in historyland / Roger Cooter; title: The neurological patient in history : a commentary / Max Stadler.