Performing neurology : the dramaturgy of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot / Jonathan W. Marshall.

[Basingstoke, UK] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

xi, 277 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.

Charcot, spectacle, and the mise en scène of the Salpêtrière -- Building the stage and materializing the archetype -- The theatre of the lecture theatre -- The grotesque body and the living nude -- The neurological theatre of hysterioepilepsy -- Hysterical hypnosis and infectious theatre -- Theatrical appearances and degenerative synaesthesia : Munthe and Daudet -- Charcot and the theatre of horror and terror.