Performing Neurology - The Dramaturgy of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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. Offering a unique insight into Charcot's work, his concepts and his methods, this text represents a unique and interdisciplinary analysis cutting across the fields of art and neurology.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Jonathan W. Marshall
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	277
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-51761-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Physiological & neuro-psychology Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Psychological methodology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-137-51761-1
Barcode:	9781137517616

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