Neurology and Modernity

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Neurology and Modernity

Author	: Laura Salisbury
File Size	: 47,6 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 10 February 2010
ISBN	: 9780230278004
Pages	: 298 pages

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Neurology and Modernity by Laura Salisbury Book PDF 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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