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Title: Performing Neurology
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Dramaturgy of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot
Format: Hardback
Author: Jonathan W. Marshall
EAN: 9781137517616
ISBN: 9781137517616
Edition: 2016 ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date: 07/14/2016
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Medicine
Language: English
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 148mm
Description: 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.

Release Year: 2016

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