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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2000.
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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