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Sounds of silence: aphasiology and the subject of modernity

Salisbury, Laura (2010) Sounds of silence: aphasiology and the subject of modernity. In: Salisbury, Laura and Shail, A. (eds.) Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800-1950. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 204-230. ISBN 9780230233133.

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Abstract

Book synopsis: Citizens of the modern era found themselves singularly prone to nervous disorders, while at the same historical moment the nervous system became a privileged model for describing the organization of political and social spheres. Neurology and Modernity describes and explores this intriguing coincidence, uncovering the centrality of neurological ideas of health, disease, and experience within the medical treatises, popular advice manuals, science fiction, literary fiction, spiritualist tracts, philosophy, government reports and military tribunals of the period 1800-1950. This volume traces and illuminates the cultural ideas and anxieties that informed representations of the nervous body, whilst showing how many of the most distinctive features of the period known as modernity seem to vibrate in sympathy with neurology's central concerns. The thirteen new studies in this volume untangle the significant mutual dependencies between scientific neurology and the cultural attitudes of the period, exploring how and why modernity remained such a fundamentally nervous state.

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Item Type: Book Section
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Depositing User: Administrator
Date Deposited: 16 Mar 2011 13:59
Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:29
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/1624

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