Performing Neurology The Dramaturgy of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot
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 desc
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Performing Neurology
Jonathan W. Marshall
Performing Neurology The Dramaturgy of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot
Jonathan W. Marshall Edith Cowan University West Australian Academy of Performing Arts Perth, West Australia, Australia
ISBN 978-1-137-51761-6 ISBN 978-1-137-51762-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51762-3
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PREFACE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
As an undergraduate, I attended a lecture on Michel Foucault’s concept of the “hystericization” of the female body. In order to provide a context, Professor Charles Chips Sowerwine detailed to us Charcot’s lessons at the Salpêtrière during the 1880s. Here, doctors prodded partially-dressed hysterical women in order to stage the patients’ seizures and delusions for the apparent edification and teaching of the audience. It sounded like theatre to me. My later discovery of a massive photographic archive detailing these poses sealed my interest. Chips was to supervise my masters thesis on a related subject, and acted as the secondary supervisor on the beginnings of this project also. I am grateful for his support in these and other endeavours. It was, however, Professor Joy Damousi who supervised my doctoral studies on this subject, and it is to her I owe the greatest thanks. I remain in her debt today. Invaluable notes on my doctorate were provided by Robert Nye and David Garrioch, who I again thank here. The material published here has therefore been under development for some time. Amongst the many individuals who supported and assisted me through iterations of this research, I wish to acknowledge the former archivist and lib
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