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Medical muses : hysteria in nineteenth-century Paris / Asti Hustvedt.
Van Pelt Library RC339.52.C453 H87 2011
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection RC339.52.C453 H87 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hustvedt, Asti.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charcot, J. M. (Jean Martin), 1825-1893.
- Charcot, J. M.
- Neurologists--France--Biography.
- Neurologists.
- Hysteria--Treatment--France--History--19th century.
- Hysteria.
- Psychiatry--France--History--19th century.
- Psychiatry.
- Salpêtrière (Hospital).
- History.
- Hysteria--Treatment.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
- Summary:
- Depicts the lives of three French women who became unwitting celebrities after being committed to the hysteria ward of Salpetrière Hospital in 1870s Paris and delves into the treatment they received from noted French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot.
- Contents:
- Charcot
- Blanche
- Augustine
- Genevieve.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780393025606
- 0393025608
- OCLC:
- 668194841
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