On hysteria : the invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 /

"These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem -- and one that, originally, was applied to men as often as to women....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arnaud, Sabine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Colección:Online access with DDA: Askews (Medicine)
Temas:
1600-1799
Hysteria > History.
Hysteria > France > History > 18th century.
Hysteria > Early works to 1800.
Hysteria > Social aspects.
Hysteria in literature.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Hysteria > Early works to 1900.
Hysteria > history
History, 17th Century
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
Hystérie > Histoire.
Hystérie > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Hystérie > Ouvrages avant 1900.
Hystérie > Aspect social.
Hystérie dans la littérature.
Médecine > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Medicine
Hysteria
Hysteria in literature
Hysteria > Social aspects
France
Electronic books.
Early works
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Names and uses of a diagnosis
  • In search of metaphors: Figuring what cannot be defined
  • The writing of a pathology and practices of dissemination
  • Code, truth, or ruse? The vapors in the republic of letters
  • Relating fits and creating enigmas: The role of narrative
  • Adopting roles and redefining medicine.
  • Introduction
  • Names and uses of a diagnosis
  • The establishment of hysteria as a medical category
  • An intermingling of terms
  • First occurrences of the term "hysteria"
  • Vaporous affection and social class
  • Encounters between medical and religious spheres
  • In search of metaphors: figuring what cannot be defined
  • A catalog of images: Proteus, the chameleon, and the hydra
  • Repeated quotations, divergent readings
  • The writing of a pathology and practices of dissemination
  • Dialogue
  • Autobiography
  • Fictional correspondence
  • The epistolary consultation
  • Anecdotes
  • Code, truth, or ruse? the vapors in the republic of letters
  • Well-timed fits
  • The practice of vapors
  • The force of the imagination
  • Relating fits and creating enigmas: the role of narrative
  • Bodies awaiting exegesis
  • The rise of medical narrative
  • In the shadow of a gothic tale
  • Traps and countertraps
  • The construction of secrets
  • Adopting roles and redefining medicine
  • To mystify or to demystify? establishing the role of the therapist
  • Magnetism, parodies, and mystification: the art of framing a therapeutic
  • Practice
  • Strategies of legitimation and definitions of the patient to come
  • Investing in women
  • Conclusion.

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