How The Brain Lost Its Mind
Sex, Hysteria and the Riddle of Mental Illness
$21.68
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2021
Summary
‘Hugely entertaining’ - Guardian
‘Fascinating’ - Mail on Sunday
In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a ‘grand asylum of human misery’. Assessing the dismal conditions, he quickly upgraded the facilities, and in doing so, revolutionised the treatment of mental illness.
Many of Charcot’s patients had neurosyphilis (the advanced form of syp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786491831 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786491834 |
| Author: | Dr Allan Ropper |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
| Imprint: | Atlantic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 251g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 129mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
‘Absorbing and scholarly… A twin biography of psychiatry and neurology, their study charts this uneasy relationship from marriage to divorce to reconciliation even as fundamental questions about the nature of mental illness remain… Hugely entertaining.’ - Guardian
‘A rollicking ride, patient by patient, through the history of two conditions, hysteria and neurosyphilis.’ - The Times
Dr Allan Ropper
Dr. Allan H. Ropper is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Raymond D. Adams Master Clinician of the Department of Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a deputy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, Royal College of Physicians, and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Ropper is an author of the most widely consulted textbook of neurology, Principles of Neurology, currently in its eleventh edition, and co-author with B.D. Burrell of Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole.
B.D. Burrell is a member of the mathematics faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A teacher and writer, he is the author of several books, including Postcards from the Brain Museum, The Words We Live By, and, jointly with Dr. Allan H. Ropper, Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole.
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