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Performing neurology : the dramaturgy of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot

Marshall, Jonathan W., 1970- author

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\"This text provides a study of Jean-Martin Charcot, a founding figure in the history of neurology as a discipline and a colleague of Sigmund Freud. It argues that Charcot's diagnostic and pedagogic models, explaining both how disease is recognized and described and how to teach the act of neurological diagnosis, should be considered through a theatrical lens. Considering the constitution of the living, moving body in terms of performance, Charcot created a situation whereby the line between deceptive acting and real pathology, scientific accuracy and creative falsehood, and indeed between health and unhealth, becomes blurred. The physician becomes a medical subject in his or her own display, transforming medicine into a potentially destabilizing, even grand guignolesque, discourse\"-- Back cover.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Charcot, J. M. 1825-1893. / Charcot, J. M 1825-1893. / Salpêtrière (Hospital) / Neurologic Examination history. / Neurology history. / Education, Medical methods. / Drama. / History, 19th Century.
• ISBN: 1137517611, 9781137517616, 113751762X, 9781137517623

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RC339.52.C453 M37 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE