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Perilous Chastity : Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine /

Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman--well dressed, but pale and listless--reclines in a chair, languishes in bed, or falls to the floor in a faint. Weathered cron...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dixon, Laurinda S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Colorplates
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I Hysteria As A Uterine Disorder: A Brief History
  • II "Outward Manifestations": Symptoms And Diagnosis
  • III The Womb Inflamed, Threatened, And Denied: Instigators Of Disease
  • IV The Womb Occupied, Restored, And Satiated: Corporeal Cures
  • V Mind And Body Reconciled: "Psychological" Cures
  • VI Melancholic Men And Hysterical Women: The Sexual Politics Of Illness
  • VII Epilogue: Exit The Wandering Womb
  • Appendix: Medical Dissertations On The Subject Of Female Hysteria Written Between 1575 And 1740
  • Bibliography
  • Index