A Case of Hysterical Paraplegia.

Abrahams, Adolphe

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“…On occasions, anaesthesia could be curative. Abraham (1917) detailed the case of a private, who was rendered paraplegic when a shell burst near him. It was noted that when he was under nitrous oxide anaesthesia his legs moved, and on arousing he was told of this; he gradually regained movement.…”

Section: Alterations Of Consciousness Inducing Recoverymentioning

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Abrupt treatments of hysteria during World War I, 1914–18

Macleod

2018

Hist Psychiatry

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Case reports of the abrupt recovery of hysterical disorders during World War I (1914-18), though undoubtedly subject to publication bias, raise both aetiological and treatment issues regarding pseudo-neurological conversion symptoms. Published clinical anecdotes report circumstantial, psychotherapeutic, hypnotic, persuasive (and coercive) methods seemingly inducing recovery, and also responses to fright and alterations of consciousness. The ethics of modern medical practice would not allow many of these techniques, which were reported to be effective, even in the chronic cases.

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Section: Alterations Of Consciousness Inducing Recoverymentioning

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Abrupt treatments of hysteria during World War I, 1914–18

Macleod

2018

Hist Psychiatry

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“…185 The secondary representation was the existence of virtual property and player accounts for sale on eBay, 186 and the citing of Edward Castronova's foundational 2001 study on the virtual and real economics of Sony's EverQuest. 187 Virtual worlds had become a 'multi-billion dollar economy' 188 and it was commonly noted that in 2007 many transnational corporations had acquired a virtual presence. 189 The second element of permeability related to the real property-virtual property relationship.…”

Section: Virtual Worldsmentioning

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The Law and Technology Enterprise: Uncovering the Template to Legal Scholarship on Technology

Tranter

2011

Law, Innovation and Technology

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and South Africa, in response to three popular and culturally significant technological crisis events: Sputnik (1957-63), Louise Brown (1978-85), and virtual worlds (2004. What is shown is that the three literatures share a common structure in which the crisis event was captured by positive law doing public policy work, notwithstanding the 50-year timespan and the diversity of technologies involved. The elements of this structure-problematic technology, inadequate existing law and the call for new law-located within a voluminous scholarship of description and analogy, comprises the law and technology enterprise. Section III provides an overview of some contributions to the study of the law and technology interface that break with the enterprise and point towards a more patient, general and theoretically sophisticated approach. I. THE RISE AND RISE OF LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP ON TECHNOLOGYLawyers, it seems, have a long history of writing about law and technologies. Reflecting the attitudes that David Nye identified as informing the industrialisation of the US from 1850 to 1900, 1 the inaugural issue of the Yale Law Journal (1891-2) contained an article by Harry G Day that congratulated US courts on getting it right by not awarding damages to property owners whose street outlook has been changed by the construction of electric tramways. 2 Day's touchstone was 'progress':Rapid transit in particular is as indispensable to [American cities'] progress as light, sewerage and water, and a system which is clean, quiet, cheap, easily controlled and occupying as little space as possible is universally demanded. 3 The appearance of motor vehicles inspired Xenophon P Huddy in 1905, also in the Yale Law Journal, to examine automobiles and the existing road rules. He concluded that 'the automobile [is] one of the least dangerous of conveyances if properly driven', and did not

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“…From a comprehensive analysis of writings on mental and nervous disorders of war from 1914 onwards, only three authors using the term (excluding Rivers) can be found before 1918 (Abrahams, 1915;Ballard, 1917a;Ballard, 1917b: 128;Mott, 1916: vi, xx). From a comprehensive analysis of writings on mental and nervous disorders of war from 1914 onwards, only three authors using the term (excluding Rivers) can be found before 1918 (Abrahams, 1915;Ballard, 1917a;Ballard, 1917b: 128;Mott, 1916: vi, xx).…”

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“…The term anxiety neurosis was in fact infrequently used throughout the war, and when employed usually implied nothing more than a condition in which anxiety was prominent as cause or symptom, without the specifi c mechanisms invoked by Rivers or Freud. From a comprehensive analysis of writings on mental and nervous disorders of war from 1914 onwards, only three authors using the term (excluding Rivers) can be found before 1918 (Abrahams, 1915;Ballard, 1917a;Ballard, 1917b: 128;Mott, 1916: vi, xx). On the other hand, the use of neurasthenia to connote primarily nervous exhaustion, perhaps attended by a selection of 'psychic' symptoms, continued in a range of medical discussions on shell-shock during and after the war (Collie, 1916: 532;Craig, 1917: 254;Forster, 1918: 85;Hurst, 1944: 136-8;Marr, 1919: 46).…”

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Hysteria and neurasthenia in pre-1914 British medical discourse and in histories of shell-shock

Loughran

2008

Hist Psychiatry

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Histories of shell-shock have argued that the diagnosis was subdivided into the categories hysteria and neurasthenia, and that the differential distribution and treatment of these diagnoses was shaped by class and gender expectations. These arguments depend on the presentation of hysteria and neurasthenia as opposed constructs in British medical discourse before 1914. An analysis of the framing of these diagnoses in British medical discourse c. 1910-1914 demonstrates that hysteria and neurasthenia, although undergoing redefinition in these years, were closely connected through the designation of both as functional diseases, and the role attributed to heredity in each. Before the war these diagnoses were perceived as indicators of national decline. Continuity, as well as change, is evident in medical responses to shell-shock.

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A Case of Hysterical Paraplegia.

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Abrupt treatments of hysteria during World War I, 1914–18

Abrupt treatments of hysteria during World War I, 1914–18

The Law and Technology Enterprise: Uncovering the Template to Legal Scholarship on Technology

Hysteria and neurasthenia in pre-1914 British medical discourse and in histories of shell-shock

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