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 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
eBook, English, 2016
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2016
Libros electrónicos
1 recurso en línea 1 online resource (XI, 277 p. 11 il., 1 il. in color.)
9781137517623, 113751762X
979887838
Introduction
PART 1: PATHOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE: CONTEXTS, FRAMES AND STAGES
1. Theatrum Analyticum: The Stage of the Salpêtrière and Its Players
2. Materializing the Archetype
3. Theatrical Pedagogy
4. The Grotesque Body and the Living Nude
PART 2: PATHOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE IN THE CLINIC
5. Performing Hysterioepilepsy
6. Infectious Representations
PART 3: THEATRICAL FICTIONS
7. Theatrical Appearances and Degenerative Synaesthesia: Munthe and Daudet
8. The Theatre of Horror and Dread
Conclusion