The Neurological Patient in History: Rochester Studies in Medical History

L. Stephen Jacyna, Stephen T. Casper

Introduction The Patient's Pitch: The Neurologist, the Tuning Fork, and Textbook Knowledge Neurological Patients as Experimental Subjects: Epilepsy Studies in the United States Speaking for Yourself: The Medico-Legal Aspects of Aphasia in Nineteenth-Century Britain The Spouse, the Neurological Patient, and Doctors Disappearing in Plain Sight: Public Roles of People with Dementia in the Meaning and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease The Cursing Patient: Neuropsychiatry Confronts Tourette's Syndrome, 1825-2008 The Psychasthenic Poet: Robert Nichols and His Neurologists The Encephalitis Lethargica Patient as a Window on the Soul Neuropatients in Historyland The Neurological Patient in History: A Commentary Bibliography List of Contributors Index