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From Hysteria to Hormones : A Rhetorical History /
In From Hysteria to Hormones, Amy Koerber examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health.Shortly after Ernest Henry Starling coined the term "hormone" in 19...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Hormones and Hysteria: A Rhetorical Topology
- 2 Hysteria from Ancient Texts until the Nineteenth Century: The Womb as Topological Space
- 3 Charcot's Circus: Nineteenth-Century Science of Hysteria as a Moment of Stasis
- 4 Stasis Unsettled: The Early Twentieth-Century Rise of Endocrinology
- 5 Topology of Sex Difference: A Long History of Men Saying Outrageous Things about Women's Reproductive Organs
- 6 Illuminating Women: Metaphor and Movement after Centuries of "Groping in the Dark"
- 7 This Is Your [Female] Brain on Hormones: Enthymeme in Contemporary Discourse
- 8 From Hysteria to Hormones
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index