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Perilous Chastity : Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine /
Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman-well dressed, but pale and listless-reclines in a chair, languishes in bed, or falls to the floor in a faint. Weathered crones...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Colorplates
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Hysteria As A Uterine Disorder: A Brief History
- II "Outward Manifestations": Symptoms And Diagnosis
- III The Womb Inflamed, Threatened, And Denied: Instigators Of Disease
- IV The Womb Occupied, Restored, And Satiated: Corporeal Cures
- V Mind And Body Reconciled: "Psychological" Cures
- VI Melancholic Men And Hysterical Women: The Sexual Politics Of Illness
- VII Epilogue: Exit The Wandering Womb
- Appendix: Medical Dissertations On The Subject Of Female Hysteria Written Between 1575 And 1740
- Bibliography
- Index