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 Charcotrsquo;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 Charcotrsquo;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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