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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| 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?