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Approaching Hysteria : Disease and Its Interpretations /
Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "vaporous" salong women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund F...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1995.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The New Hysteria Studies
- A Short "History" of Hysteria
- Ch. 1. The Major Interpretive Traditions. Intellectual Histories of Hysteria. Psychoanalytic Hysteria. Feminist Histories of Hysteria. Charcot and the History of Hysteria. Nonfeminist Social and Political Histories
- Ch. 2. Theorizing Disease Historiography. The Need for Definitional Clarity. Beyond the "Historical Hysterics" From Theory to Practice. Beyond the Freudian Historical Teleology. Toward Sociosomatic Synthesis. The "Doctor-Patient Relationship" The De-dramatization of Hysteria. The Question of Social Class. Hysteria
- The Male Malady. On the Rise and Fall of Nervous Diseases
- Ch. 3. Cultures of Hysteria: Past and Present Traditions. Hysteria's Metaphorical Past. The Literary, Dramatic, and Visual Arts. Politics, History, Society
- Ch. 4. Cultures of Hysteria: Future Orientations. Conceptualizing Cultural Influence. Hysteria, Gender, Culture. Hysteria and Religion Reconsidered.