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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dixon, Laurinda S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
1600-1699
Medicine and art > Netherlands.
Women in art.
Women > Diseases > Netherlands.
Genre painting, Dutch > 17th century.
Médecine et art > Pays-Bas.
Femmes dans l'art.
Femmes > Maladies > Pays-Bas.
ART / History / Renaissance.
Genre painting, Dutch.
Medicine and art.
Women > Diseases.
Netherlands.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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