Hysteria: The Disturbing History
Author(s): Andrew Scull
The story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing. Andrew Scull gives a fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts in social, cultural, and medical perceptions through history.
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Prologue: Suffocation of the mother; 1. Mysteria; 2. Neurologie; 3. An English malady?; 4. Reflexly mad; 5. American Nervousness; 6. A hysterical circus; 7. Freudian hysterics; 8. The wounds of war; 9. L'hysterie morte?; Further reading
General Fields
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- : Oxford University Press
- : Oxford University Press
- : 0.258
- : 01 October 2011
- : 195mm X 142mm X 19mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 January 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Andrew Scull
- : Paperback
- : 616.8524
- : 240
- : 18 black and white halftones
