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Hysteria : the biography /

The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of Hysteria - an illness that disappeared not through medical endeavour, but through growin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scull, Andrew, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Colección:Biographies of disease (Oxford, England)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : suffocation of the mother
  • Mysteria
  • Neurologie
  • An English malady?
  • Reflexly mad
  • American nervousness
  • A hysterical circus
  • Freudian hysterics
  • The wounds of war
  • L'hystérie morte?