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By L. Stephen Jacyna,Stephen T. Casper

Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, a number of sclerosis, stroke: all are neurological health problems that create disorder, misery, and incapacity. With their signs starting from impaired move and paralysis to hallucinations and dementia, neurological sufferers current myriad perplexing problems and scientific demanding situations.

during the 19th and 20th centuries numerous tales approximately neurological sufferers seemed in newspapers, books, scientific papers, and movies. usually the sufferers have been romanticized; certainly, it was once universal for physicians to forged neurological sufferers in a grand functionality, allegedly giving audiences entry to deep philosophical insights concerning the that means of existence and being.

past those romanticized pictures, despite the fact that, the neurological sufferer was once tough to diagnose. Experiments usually approached unethical geographical regions, and therapy created demanding situations for sufferers, courts, caregivers, or even for sufferer advocacy companies.

during this kaleidoscopic examine, the participants illustrate how the neurological sufferer was once built in background and got here to occupy its function in Western tradition.

Stephen T. Casper is Assistant Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at Clarkson collage. L. Stephen Jacyna is reader within the historical past of medication and Director of the Centre for the historical past of medication at college university London.

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