Neurology and Modernity

1. Introduction
Laura Salisbury, Andrew Shail

2. Beyond the Brain: Sceptical and Satirical Responses to Gall’s Organology
Michael K. House

3. Neurology and the Invention of Menstruation
Andrew Shail

4. Carlyle’s Nervous Dyspepsia: Nervousness, Indigestion and the Experience of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Hisao Ishizuka

5. Railway Spine, Nervous Excess and the Forensic Self
Jane F. Thrailkill

6. “The Conviction of its Existence”: Silas Weir Mitchell, Phantom Limbs and Phantom Bodies in Neurology and Spiritualism
Aura Satz

7. Modernism and the Two Paranoias: The Neurology of Persecution
George Rousseau

8. “Nerve-Vibration”: Therapeutic Technologies in the 1880s and 1890s
Shelley Trower

9. From Daniel Paul Schreber through the Dr. Phil Family: Modernity, Neurology and the Cult of the Case Study Superstar
Michael Angelo Tata

10. “I guess I’m just nervous, then”: Neuropathology and Edith Wharton’s Exploration of Interior Geographies
Vike Martina Plock

11. Sounds of Silence: Aphasiology and the Subject of Modernity
Laura Salisbury

12. Shell Shock as a Self-Inflicted Wound, 1915–1921
Jessica Meyer

13. Modernity and the Peristaltic Subject
Jean Walton

14. Matter for Thought: The Psychon in Neurology, Psychology and American Culture, 1927–1943
Melissa M. Littlefield

Keywords: History, History of Science, History of Psychology, History of Medicine, Cultural History, Social History, Modern History