From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history /

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"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"--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koerber, Amy (Amy Lunn) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
Colección:RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.
Temas:
Women > Health and hygiene > History.
Hormones > History.
Hysteria > History.
Rhetoric.
Women's Health > history
Hormones > history
Hysteria > history
Hormones > Histoire.
Hystérie > Histoire.
Rhétorique.
rhetoric (discipline)
HEALTH & FITNESS / Healthy Living
HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism
HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference
MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
Hormones
Hysteria
Rhetoric
Women > Health and hygiene
Science communication.
feminist theory.
health communication.
medical rhetoric.
rhetoric of health and medicine.
rhetorical theory.
women's health.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hormones and hysteria : a rhetorical topology
  • Hysteria from ancient texts until the nineteenth century : the womb as topological space
  • Charcot's circus : nineteenth-century science of hysteria as a moment of stasis
  • Stasis unsettled : the early twentieth-century rise of endocrinology
  • Topology of sex difference : a long history of men saying outrageous things about women's reproductive organs
  • Illuminating women : metaphor and movement after centuries of "groping in the dark"
  • This is your [female] brain on hormones : enthymeme in contemporary discourse
  • From hysteria to hormones.

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