Hysteria the biography
The story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing. Andrew Scull gives a fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts in social, cultural, and medical perceptions throu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Biographies of disease (Oxford, England)
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798020806719 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue : suffocation of the mother
- Mysteria
- Neurologie
- An English malady?
- Reflexly mad
- American nervousness
- A hysterical circus
- Freudian hysterics
- The wounds of war
- L'hystérie morte?
