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Jacyna L. S |
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Lost words [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of language and the brain, 1825-1926 / / L.S. Jacyna |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2000 |
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1-282-30387-2 |
9786612303876 |
1-4008-3118-0 |
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[Course Book] |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Aphasia - History |
Language disorders |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE. CONSTRUING SILENCE -- TWO: "THE WORD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN" -- THREE. THE DISCOURSE OF APHASIA -- FOUR. JOHN HUGHLINGS JACKSON AND THE PREDICAMENT OF THE "SPEECHLESS MAN" -- FIVE. HEAD WOUNDS -- SIX. DISSONANT VOICES -- SEVEN MAKING GOOD -- CONCLUSION -- INDEX |
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In the mid-nineteenth century, physicians observed numerous cases in which individuals lost the ability to form spoken words, even as they remained sane and healthy in most other ways. By studying this condition, which came to be known as "aphasia," neurologists were able to show that functions of mind were rooted in localized areas of the brain. Here L. S. Jacyna analyzes medical writings on aphasia to illuminate modern scientific discourse on the relations between language and the brain, from the very beginnings of this discussion through World War I. Viewing these texts as literature--complete with guiding metaphors and rhetorical strategies--Jacyna reveals the power they exerted on the ways in which the human subject was constructed in medicine.Jacyna submits the medical texts to various critical readings and provides a review of the pictorial representation involved |
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with the creation of aphasiology. He considers the scientific, experimental, and clinical aspects of this new field, together with the cultural, professional, and political dimensions of what would become the authoritative discourse about language and the brain. At the core of the study is an inquiry into the processes whereby men and women suffering from language loss were transformed into the "aphasic," an entity amenable to scientific scrutiny and capable of yielding insights about the fundamental workings of the brain. But what became of the subject's human identity? Lost Words explores the links among language, humanity, and mental presence that make the aphasiological project one of continuing fascination. |
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UNINA9910781447203321 |
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Reader in the history of aphasia [[electronic resource] ] : from (Franz) Gall to (Norman) Geschwind / / edited by Paul Eling |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1994 |
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1-283-32800-3 |
9786613328007 |
90-272-7668-4 |
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1 online resource (408 p.) |
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series II, Classics in psycholinguistics, , 0165-716X ; ; v. 4 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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READER IN THE HISTORY OF APHASIA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; Introduction; Franz Joseph Gall; Biography; Introduction; References; Letter from Dr. F. J. Gall to Mr. Joseph F. von Retzeron the prodromus he has completed on the functions of the human and animal brain; I. Abilities and propensities are innate in men and animals.; II. The abilities and propensities are situated in the brain. |
III. IV. Not only do the abilities differ essentially and independently from |
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the propensities, but also the capabilities and propensities per se among themselves differ essentially and independently from each other therefore they must be situated in different and independent parts of the brain.; V. Different forms of the brain develop from the different distributions of the different organs and their different development.; VI. Out of the combination and the development of certain organs a certain form emerges, both of the entire brain and of its specific parts or their surroundings. |
VII. From the origin of the bones of the skull until old age, the form of the inner of the cranium is determined by the external form of the brain consequently certain abilities and propensities can be concluded from the form of the outer surface of the cranium as long as it agrees with the inner form or does not diverge from the known deviations.; Paul Broca; Biography; Selected Bibliography; Introduction; Setting the Scene; Broca's claims; Broca on language; Evaluation of Broca's contribution; References; Selection from the work of Paul Broca |
Notes on the site of the faculty of articulated language, followed by an observation of aphemia Aphemia, lasting twenty-one years, produced by chronic and progressive softening of the second and third convolutions of the superior layer of the left frontal lobe.; Complete atrophy of the insular lobe and of the third convolution of the frontal lobe with preservation of the intelligence and the faculty of articulated language.*- Observations by Dr. Parrot, hospital physician -; On the site of the faculty of articulated language; Carl Wernicke; Selection from the work of Carl Wernicke |
The Aphasia Symptom-Complex: A Psychological Study on an Anatomical Basis Some new studies on aphasia; Notes; References; Biography; Selected Bibliography; Introduction; Wernicke on Aphasia; References; Henry Charlton Bastian; Biography; Selected Bibliography; Introduction; References; Selection from the work of Henry Charlton Bastian; THE LUMLEIAN LECTURES Some Problems in Connection with Aphasia and other Speech Defects; The various kinds of word memory; The localisation of the different word-centres; Further Problems in Regard to the Localization of Higher Cerebral Functions; Notes |
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The study of language and the brain is heavily dependent on the work of the early aphasiologists, and those wanting to get acquainted with the discipline will come across frequent references to these classic authors. This collection brings together seminal publications by 19th- and 20th-century neurologists concerned with the relationship between language and the brain. In selecting texts the emphasis was on those parts that deal explicitly with the opinion of an author on language processes as revealed by aphasic phenomena. All texts are presented in English (many of them translated for the f |
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