Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Special Theme Issue: Jean-Martin Charcot: A Bicentennial Collection of Essays

Editors: Mark S. Micale, Christopher G. Goetz, Emmanuel Broussolle, Bruno Dubois

Objectives:

To celebrate the bi-centennial anniversary of this seminal figure in the history of medicine and neurology

To illustrate the range and robustness of current-day scholarship on Charcot

To review the field of “Charcot studies” since publication of the comprehensive Goetz/Bonduelle/Gelfand biography in 1995

To foster continued research projecting into a third century of Charcot’s legacy.

Table of contents

Introduction
Christopher G. Goetz, Emmanuel Broussolle, Mark S. Micale & Bruno Dubois
Pages: 107-108

Clinical and Scientific Issues

Charcot and hallucinations: A study in insight and blindness. Gilles Fénelon
Pages: 109-132

Scientific plurality and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): A philosophical and historical perspective on Charcot's texts. Anne Fenoy
Pages: 133-142

Charcot's contribution to the problem of language in mental medicine. Camille Jaccard
Pages: 143-153

Charcot's erroneous double-semidecussation scheme for the retinocortical visual pathways. Douglas J. Lanska
Pages: 154-176

The peripheral nerve: A neglected topic in Charcot's neurological work. Laurent Tatu & Julien Bogousslavsky
Pages: 177-184

Jean-Martin Charcot, member of thesis juries at the Paris Medical School (1862-1893). Olivier Walusinski
Pages: 185-205

Charcot and the Wider World

Charcot's international visitors and pupils from Europe, the United States, and Russia. Emmanuel Broussolle, Edward H. Reynolds, Peter J. Koehler, Julien Bogousslavsky, Olivier Walusinski, Francesco Brigo, Lorenzo Lorusso & François Boller
Pages: 206-247

The prominent role of Charcot and the French neurological tradition in Latin America. Hélio A. Ghizoni Teive & Carlos Henrique F. Camargo
Pages: 248-262

The Great Neurosis

Charcot and the psychology of hysteria, with special reference to a never published final case history. Toby Gelfand
Pages: 263-273

Brouillet's Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière as an epistemic tool in Charcot's research on hysterical amnesia. Paula Muhr
Pages: 274-287

Male hysteria in theory and practice: Analyzing patient records of the Tartu Psychiatric Hospital (Estonia), 1881-1895. Anu Rae
Pages: 288-309

Charcot and the Cultural Arts

Charcot as a collector and critic of the arts: Relationship of the 'founder of neurology' with various aspects of art. François Boller & Julien Bogousslavsky
Pages: 310-321

Charcot and Léon Daudet: A missed love story ? Julien Bogousslavsky & Laurent Tatu
Pages: 322-330

Edvard Munch's crisis in 1908 and French medicine: His doctors, treatments, and sources of information. Stanley Finger & Elisabetta Sirgiovanni
Pages: 331-354

The stone of madness: Charcot's interest in a copy after Pieter Bruegel Sr. as referred to by Henry Meige. Peter J. Koehler
Pages: 355-367

Charcot and recent French cinema. Ariane St-Denis & Rami Massie
Pages: 368-377

Remarkable things: Visual evidence and excess at Charcot's Salpêtrière. Natasha Ruiz-Gómez
Pages: 378-3971

The Late Charcot

The Last Voyage of Jean-Martin Charcot. Frans Gilson
Pages: 398-428

Charcot's interest in faith healing. A. J. Lees
Pages: 429-438