Literature, neurology, and neuroscience : neurological and psychiatric disorders /

• Other Authors: Stiles, Anne, 1975- (Editor), Finger, Stanley (Editor), Boller, François (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam, the Netherlands : Elsevier, 2013.
• Edition: First edition.
• Series: Progress in brain research ; v. 206.
• Subjects: Neurology > History.; Neurosciences > History.; Neurosciences and the humanities.; Neurology.; Neurosciences.; Medicine in Literature.; History of Medicine.; History, 16th Century.; History, 19th Century.; History, 20th Century.; Mental Disorders > therapy.; Nervous System Diseases > therapy.; Neurology > history.; Neurosciences > history.; Electronic books.; History.

This volume on the neurosciences, neurology, and literature vividly shows how science and the humanities can come together --- and have come together in the past. Its sections provide a new, broad look at these interactions, which have received surprisingly little attention in the past. Experts in t...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Neurological and psychiatric disorders in literature. William Shakespeare's neurology / Maurizio Paciaroni, Julien Bogousslavsky
• Locked-in: the syndrome as depicted in literature / Joost Haan
• Meningitis, a whirlpool of death: literary reflections and Russian cultural beliefs / Yuri Zagvazdin
• Parkinsonism in poets and writers / Julien Bogousslavsky, Maurizio Paciaroni
• Neurosyphilitics and madmen: the French fin-de-siècle fictions of Huysmans, Lermina, and Maupassant / Andrea Goulet
• Charcot, la Salpêtrière, and hysteria as represented in European literature / Peter J. Koehler
• Historical and literary roots of Münchhausen syndromes: as intriguing as the syndromes themselves / Régis Olry, Duane E. Haines
• The Alice in Wonderland syndrome / Edward J. Fine
• Tomas Tranströmer's stroke of genius: language but no words / Iván Iniesta
• Part 2: Treating neurological disorders in the media and literature. The cruelty and failings of therapies for neurological diseases in French literature / Olivier Walusinski
• Portrayals of lobotomy in American and Swedish media / Kenneth Ögren
• Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in literature: Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / Charles H. Kellner.