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.

Draft table of contents

Introduction: “The Charcot Bicentennial,” by Emmanuel Broussolle, Bruno Dubois, and Christopher G. Goetz
“A Generation of Charcot Studies, 1995 to the Present,” by Mark S. Micale

I: Clinical and Scientific Issues
Fénelon, Gilles (Créteil/Paris): “Charcot and Hallucinations”
Fenoy, Anne (Sorbonne, Paris): “Scientific Pluralism and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A History and Critical Perspective Based on Charcot’s Texts”
Jaccard, Camille (Lausanne): “Charcot’s Contribution to the Problem of Language in Mental Medicine”
Lanska, Douglas J. (Madison, USA): “Charcot’s Erroneous Double-decussation Scheme for the Visual Pathway”
Tatu, Laurent (Besançon) and Julien Bogousslavsky (Montreux): “Charcot and the Peripheral Nerves”
Walusinski, Olivier (Chartres): “Charcot as President of the Juries of Neurological Theses”

II: Charcot and the Wider World
Broussolle, Emmanuel (Lyons); Reynolds, Edward (London); Boller, François (Paris/Washington); Bogousslavsky, Julien (Montreux, Switzerland); Walusinski, Olivier (Chartres); Koehler, Peter (Maastricht, Netherlands); and two Italian authors: “Charcot’s International Visitors and Pupils”
Kendall, Natasha (Newcastle, Australia): “Charcot’s Clinical Influence on Psychiatry and Asylum Medicine in Australia”
Tieve, Hélio A. G. (Paraná, Brazil): “Charcot and South America”

III: “The Great Neurosis”
Micale, Mark S. (Baltimore): “Charcot’s Hysteria Therapeutics”
Muhr, Paula (Karlsruhe, Germany): “Brouillet’s Une leçon à la Salpêtrière as an Epistemic Tool in Charcot’s Research on Hysterical Amnesia”
Rae, Anu (Tartu, Estonia): “Charcot and Male Hysteria on the European Periphery”

IV: Charcot and the Cultural Arts
Boller, François (Paris/Washington) and Bogousslavsky, Julien (Montreux, Switzerland): “Charcot as a Collector and Critic of Art”
Finger, Stanley (St. Louis, USA) and Elisabetta Sirgiovanni (Rome): “Edvard Munch’s Psychiatric Crisis and Treatments, 1908-09: French Connections”
Koehler, Peter (Masstricht): “Charcot, Bruegel, and ‘the Stone of Madness’”
Massie, Rami, (Montreal): “Representations of Charcot in Recent French Film”
Ruiz-Gómez, Natasha (Essex, UK): “Between Life and Art: Visual Evidence and the Salpêtrière School”

V: The Late Charcot
Gelfand, Toby (Ottawa), “A Missing Link: Charcot’s Last Case History of May 9, 1893”
Gilson, Frans (Vezélay, France): “Charcot’s Final Trip to Vézelay in August 1893”
Lees, Andrew (London): “Charcot’s Interest in Faith Healing”