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

Author	Salisbury, Laura; Shail, Andrew
Year	2010
Publisher	Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	336
ISBN	9780230233133
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Abstract

Amazon (2012): An exploration of the habits of the modern era beside cultural notions discovering brain function and the nervous system to be central to health and illness. It looks at debates within neurology and culture through neurological works, popular advice, and the appearance of neurological disorders within the aesthetic artefacts of modernity.