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The neurological patient in history / edited by L. Stephen Jacyna and Stephen T. Casper.

Other author/creatorJacyna, L. S.
Other author/creatorCasper, Stephen T.
Other author/creatorProQuest (Firm)
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoRochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2012.
Descriptionviii, 264 pages : illustrations.
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Series Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715 ; v. 20
Rochester studies in medical history v. 20. ^A689870
Contents The patient's pitch : the neurologist, the tuning fork, and textbook knowledge / Stephen T. Casper -- Neurological patients as experimental subjects : epilepsy studies in the United States / Ellen Dwyer -- Speaking for yourself : the medico-legal aspects of aphasia in nineteenth-century Britain / Marjorie Perlman Lorch -- The spouse, the neurological patient, and doctors / Katrina Gatley -- Disappearing in plain sight : public roles of people with dementia in the meaning and politics of Alzheimer's disease / Jesse F. Ballenger -- The cursing patient : neuropsychiatry confronts Tourette's syndrome, 1825-2008 / Howard I. Kushner -- The psychasthenic poet : Robert Nichols and his neurologists / L. Stephen Jacyna -- The encephalitis lethargica patient as a window on the soul / Paul Foley -- Neuropatients in historyland / Roger Cooter -- The neurological patient in history : a commentary / Max Stadler.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011047390

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