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A cursing brain? : the histories of Tourette syndrome /

A study of Tourette syndrome, "a set of behaviors, involuntary shouting (sometimes cursing) as well as obsessive-compulsive actions. ... Reveals how cultural and medical assumptions have determined and radically altered its characterization and treatment from the early nineteenth century to the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kushner, Howard I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
Edición:1st Harvard Univ. Press pbk. ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Note on Terms
  • 1 An Elusive Syndrome
  • 2 The Case of the Cursing Marquise
  • 3 A Disputed Illness
  • 4 The Case of O. and the Emergence of Psychoanalysis
  • 5 Competing Claims
  • 6 The Disappearance of Tic Illness
  • 7 Margaret Mahler and the Tic Syndrome
  • 8 Haloperidol and the Persistence of the Psychogenic Frame
  • 9 The French Resistance
  • 10 The Triumph of the Organic Narrative
  • 11 Clashing Cultural Conceptions
  • 12 Clinical Lessons
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index