HIST 3640 Lecture 7: Seminar Charcot Notes
7 Feb 2017
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9:48 pm: jean-martin charcot, french neuropathologist, was attracted to salp tri re because of its large and diverse patient population a population which the. Frenchman set himself to the task of systematically organizing the patients. Amply illustrated photographs and diagrams with long transcriptions of speech recorded from patients" during hysterical attacks. How does the position and approach of the knower affect the portrayal of the known: charcot analyzed and categorized clinical phenomena into "archetypes" Archetypes were fully developed examples of the disease that he would then analyze further in an attempt to detect their anatomical basis. Despite making elaborate family trees to trace various forms of neurological "degeneracy" though, he still favored bloodline analysis over taking into consideration familial and sociological experiences that affected people psychologically at early ages. By capturing various hysterical poses on film and superimposing negatives from different cases, a general picture of the syndrome could emerge.
