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This book argues that to speak of neurology and modernity is to describe a relationship of mutual constitution. As each of these chapters proposes, neurological conceptions of the self were primary components of the ways in which ‘modernity’ — or the historical period usually seen to stretch from 1850 to 1950 — conceptualized itself and its subjects. At the same time, Neurology and Modernity explores the various ways in which the historical characteristics of a broadly conceived cultural modernity appear to have guided fundamentally the inquiries and discoveries of the medical discipline of neurology. To begin to chart this complex and knotty relationship between neurology and modernity is not simply to suggest that the neurological self was a corollary of modernity, nor is it to propose that neurology, as a discipline, was just the product of the emergence of historical modernity; rather, it is to explore the ways in which the two were symbiotically related, complexly co-generative.
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Salisbury, L., Shail, A. (2010). Introduction. In: Salisbury, L., Shail, A. (eds) Neurology and Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230278004_1
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