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Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations
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Full Title:
Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations
Contributors:
By (Author) Mark S. Micale
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
26th March 2019
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
History of ideas
Neurology and clinical neurophysiology
Behaviourism, Behavioural theory
Psychiatry
Dewey:
616.8524009
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
344
Dimensions:
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "vaporous" salong women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms. I
