Download or read book J M Charcot 1825 1893 written by Georges Guillain and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every important nation can point to a few great medical statesmen who symbolize the best in the medical science of their native lands and who, in addition, have become true men of the world. France can point to her share of such men. But perhaps she has no better representative than Jean-Martin Charcot, the man who occupied the world's first professorial chair in clinical neurology at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. Therefore, a story of the life and works of Charcot belongs to the whole world and should be translated in many languages. An English-language biography of Charcot is long overdue. The original Charcot biography in French was written by Professor Georges Guillain and published by Masson in 1955. Guillain's biography contains more than its title implies, for he deals with two celebrated French monuments : one a man, J.-M. Charcot ; the other, a medical institution, the Salpêtrière. These two, Charcot and the Salpêtrière, are inseparable ; for without one there would not be the other in the sense that we understand both of them today. Guillain describes how the Salpêtrière began in the seventeenth century as an asylum for the detention of beggars and old women, of prostitutes and perverted girls, and for the incarceration of insane women ; how it also served as a prison for women convicted of adultery, theft, or murder and for political prisoners. Guillain continues by showing how during the nineteenth century, under the indomitable direction of Charcot, this "pandemonium of infirmities" was transformed into the world's greatest center for clinical neurologic research, which to this day still reflects the genius and inspiration of its founder. In addition, as Guillain brings out, the history of the Salpêtrière and the life of Charcot are closely interwoven with the fabric of the history of Paris and indeed of France over a period that includes : The French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era, restoration of the Bourbons, the return of Napoleon III, the defeat of the Paris Commune of 1871, and the Prussian occupation of Paris. During these times of political and economic ferment, France gave birth in rapid succession to some of the greatest minds of its history. In the nineteenth century the center of world medicine gravitated to Paris. It is against this background of socioeconomic and political eruptions and of scientific discoveries that Guillain paints his picture of Charcot and the Salpêtrière. So the book should be of interest not only to neurologists and physicians but to all readers interested in the history of Paris and of France."--adapted from Translator's Preface to American Edition, pages vii-x.
Download or read book Charcot written by Christopher G. Goetz and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By then he had already published widely and had assembled a team of research specialists and students who approached the study of the nervous system through the celebrated methode anatomo-clinique that correlated specific neurological signs with discrete lesions in the central nervous system. Pushing beyond the bounds of anatomical study, Charcot went on to study hysteria, attracting both scientific and social notoriety.
Download or read book Performing Neurology written by Jonathan W. Marshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Art Nouveau in Fin de Siecle France written by Debora L. Silverman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 1990 Berkshire Conference Book Award Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style explores the shift in the locus of modernity from technological monument to private interior. It examines the political, economic, social, intellectual and artistic factors, specific to late 19th century France, that interacted in the development of art nouveau.
Download or read book Reader s Guide to Periodical Literature Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Troisi me Centenaire 1666 1966 written by Académie des sciences (France) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Following Charcot written by Julien Bogousslavsky and published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Martin Charcot, the iconic 19th century French scientist, is still regarded today as the most famous and celebrated neurologist in the world. Despite the development of strong independent schools of thought in the USA, UK and Germany, his 'Salpêtrière' school has become symbolic of the early development and rise of neurological practice and research. This book presents a fresh look at the origins of nervous system medicine, and at the fate of Charcot's school and pupils. Special emphasis is placed upon the parallels and interactions between developments in neurology and mental medicine, clearly demonstrating that Charcot is not only the father of clinical neurology, but also wielded enormous influence upon the field we would come to know as psychiatry. Providing new insights into the life and work of Charcot and his pupils, this book will make fascinating reading for neurologists, psychiatrists, physicians and historians.
Download or read book Index Medicus Third Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army Army Medical Library written by Army Medical Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Download or read book Invention of Hysteria written by Georges Didi-Huberman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria. In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed, providing skeptical colleagues with visual proof of hysteria's specific form. These images, many of which appear in this book, provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere. As Didi-Huberman shows, these photographs were far from simply objective documentation. The subjects were required to portray their hysterical "type"—they performed their own hysteria. Bribed by the special status they enjoyed in the purgatory of experimentation and threatened with transfer back to the inferno of the incurables, the women patiently posed for the photographs and submitted to presentations of hysterical attacks before the crowds that gathered for Charcot's "Tuesday Lectures." Charcot did not stop at voyeuristic observation. Through techniques such as hypnosis, electroshock therapy, and genital manipulation, he instigated the hysterical symptoms in his patients, eventually giving rise to hatred and resistance on their part. Didi-Huberman follows this path from complicity to antipathy in one of Charcot's favorite "cases," that of Augustine, whose image crops up again and again in the Iconographie. Augustine's virtuosic performance of hysteria ultimately became one of self-sacrifice, seen in pictures of ecstasy, crucifixion, and silent cries.
Download or read book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Numismatic Circular and Catalogue of Coins Tokens Commemorative War Medals Books Cabinets written by Spink & Son and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joseph Babinski written by Jacques Philippon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this volume, two French physicians, Jacques Philippon and Jacques Poirier, analyze Joseph Babinski's great scientific achievements, explore his unique family history, and publish for the first time a complete bibliography of his publications." "This book chronicles his family's emigration from Poland to France, his tutelage and early career under great teachers such as Alfred Vulpian, Victor Cornil, and Jean-Martin Charcot at the Hopital de la Salpetriere in Paris, his methods and observations during his 17 years as department head at La Pitie, as well as the close and unique relationship with his brother Henri. Finally, Babinski's life and times can be accessed in one book."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download or read book Un Grand M decin et Biologiste Casimir Joseph Davaine 1812 1882 written by Jean Théodoridès and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un Grand Médecin et Biologiste Casimir-Joseph Davaine (1812—1882)
Download or read book Hysterical Psychosis written by Katrien Libbrecht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hysteria as a neurosis seems to have disappeared altogether from the psychiatric manuals; but there are articles here and there, particularly in the United States and France, which advocate the existence of hysteria as a psychosis. Hysterical psychosis is the clinical combination of a hysterical personality with a seemingly psychotic state. Looking back to nineteenth-century psychiatry, Katrien Libbrecht attempts to answer the question: Is there such a thing as a hysterical psychosis or are we dealing with hysteria exhibiting psychotic features? Hysterical Psychosis is divided into three sections. The first part of the book carries the reader back to the second half of the nineteenth century, the heyday of the study of hysteria on the eve of the discovery of psychonanalysis. The second part of the book discusses the implications of the generalized impact of Bleuler's concept of schizophrenia during the interbellum period. The last section of the book deals with the current reemergence of hysterical psychosis from the 1960s to the 1990s. Libbrecht provides a historical survey of the most important psychiatric and psychoanalytic references on hysterical psychosis, as well as a review of current research on the matter. She sheds new light on reasons for the disappearance of the diagnosis of hysteria rn the 1950s and the emergence of the notion of hysterical psychosis during the 1960s. Hysterical Psychosis is a landmark study that is essential for psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, medical practitioners, and historians of psychology.
