lundi 26 septembre 2016

La dramaturgie du Dr Jean-Martin Charcot

Performing Neurology. The Dramaturgy of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot


Jonathan W. Marshall

Relié: 288 pages
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan (14 juillet 2016)
Langue : Anglais
ISBN-13: 978-1137517616


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.

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