My discussion on Charcot is derived from the following sources: Henri Ellenberger, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).Ĥ9. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965) see also Sander L. For an excellent general treatment of the history of hysteria, see Ilza Veith, In his dissertation, Micale provides an excellent summary of the treatment of male hysteria prior to Charcot's reassessment of the issue in the 1880s: "Diagnostic Discrimination: Jean-Martin Charcot and the Nineteenth-Century Idea of Masculine Hysterical Neurosis" (Ph.D. Micale, "Charcot and the Idea of Hysteria in the Male: Gender, Mental Science, and Medical Diagnostics in Late Nineteenth-Century France,"ģ4 (1990): 370. As Mark Micale explains, prior to Charcot's work of the 1880s, "the great majority of physicians, including many of the most 'progressive' doctors of the day, held that hysteria, in some undefined but definite way, was, as it always had been, intimately caught up with the female generative system." Mark S. Also see Thomas Buzzard, "On Cases of Injury from Railway Accidents,"ġ9. Railway Accidents or Collisions: Their Effects upon the Nervous System Quite beyond those of any ordinary injury." William Campe, There is something in the crash, the shock, and the violence of a railway collision, which would seem to produce effects upon the The actual destruction of life and limb of which we read with so much that excites in us the emotion of horror, forms but a part of the suffering really undergone by the unfortunate victims. "The extent of the injuries which may be caused by a railway accident," Camps proclaimed, "are not, in my judgment, very easily or adequately to be realized or appreciated. Two fellow countrymen and surgeons, William Camps and Thomas Buzzard, had also published brief essays on the subject of railway accidents. Erichsen was certainly not the only physician of his day to focus on the particular medical issues raised by railway injuries. Gosling concentrates on the role of neurasthenia, and Hoopes explores the distinctions between functional and structural notions of disease that informed the debate.ġ2. Trimble provides a more rigorous discussion of some of the primary medical texts on the subject. Drinka and Schivelbusch offer some interesting cultural speculations. None goes substantially beyond this discourse, however. Together these works provide a fairly accurate, albeit general, discussion of the neurological discourse on the subject of railway spine. Brown, ''Regulating Damage Claims for Emotional Injuries before the First World War,"Ĩ7-88. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1981) Gosling,Ģ43-244 Edward M. Post-Traumatic Neurosis: From Railway Spine to Whiplash Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 184, 192-193 Thomas Keller, "Railway Spine Revisited: Traumatic Neurosis or Neuro-trauma," Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 107-119 Young, Occupation and Disease: How Social Factors Affect the Conception of Work-related Disorders See Eric Caplan, "Trains, Brains, and Sprains: Railway Spine and the Origins of Psychoneuroses,"Ħ9 (1995): 387-419 Ralph Harrington, "The Neuroses of the Railway,"Ĥ4 (1994): 15-21 idem, "The 'Railway Spine' Diagnosis and Victorian Response to PTSD," Although there are literally scores of books and articles devoted to the history and cultural significance of neurasthenia, there are only a small number of English-language works that consider the subject of railway spine. Identify a question of point of confusion you have from either Hu's text or Schivelbusch's writing: provide a quotation that exemplifies this confusion and briefly explain why you are confused.7. See if you can articulate your own version of the point contained in each quotation.Ĥ. Identify a quotation from both Schivelbusch's essay and Hu's chapter that struck you as exemplifying an overarching key point the author wants to make. What do you notice about Dickens' use of language in your selected passage? What words jump out at you and why?ģ. Identify a short passage from Dickens' story that you felt most intrigued by. Many people find this story's plot a little bewildering, so you won't be alone!Ģ. Do you understand who the ghost is supposed to be? Did you notice anything unusual about the nature of this ghost, compared to our conventional expectations of the ghost story as a genre? If you aren't sure of what exactly happens in the story, try to point out where your comprehension is breaking down. "The Signal-Man" would be classified as a ghost story.
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