{"product_id":"neurology-and-modernity-a-cultural-history-of-nervous-systems-1800-1950-9780230233133","title":"Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800-1950","description":"As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization. This volume untangles the mutual dependencies of scientific neurology and the cultural attitudes of the period 1800-1950, exploring how and why modernity was a fundamentally nervous state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Salisbury, Andrew Shail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780230233133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLAURA SALISBURY is RCUK Fellow in Science, Technology, and Culture and a Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published various articles on Samuel Beckett, including one on his 'aphasic' modernism. She is currently writing a book on \u003cem\u003eLate Modernisms\u003c\/em\u003e for Edinburgh University Press and researching a study of the relationships between modernism, modernity and neurological conceptions of language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eANDREW SHAIL News International Research Fellow in Film at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. He is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eMenstruation: A Cultural History\u003c\/em\u003e (with Gillian Howie, Palgrave, 2005), and editor of \u003cem\u003eReading the Cinematograph: The Cinema in British Short Fiction 1896-1912\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Exeter Press, 2010), and co-author, with Bob Stoate, of a BFI Film Classic on \u003cem\u003eBack to the Future\u003c\/em\u003e (2010).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43201606123635,"sku":"9.78023E+12","price":93.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_18972cc6-4d08-42ac-b4a4-4c48adbbaabb.jpg?v=1752839305","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/neurology-and-modernity-a-cultural-history-of-nervous-systems-1800-1950-9780230233133","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}