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On hysteria : the invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 / Sabine Arnaud.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnaud, Sabine, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Invention de l'hystérie au temps des Lumières, 1670-1820. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Hysteria--History.
- Hysteria.
- Hysteria--France--History--18th century.
- Hysteria--Early works to 1800.
- Hysteria--Social aspects.
- Hysteria in literature.
- History.
- France.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Names and uses of a diagnosis
- The establishment of hysteria as a medical category
- An intermingling of terms
- First occurrences of the term "hysteria"
- Vaporous affection and social class
- Encounters between medical and religious spheres
- In search of metaphors: figuring what cannot be defined
- A catalog of images: Proteus, the chameleon, and the hydra
- Repeated quotations, divergent readings
- The writing of a pathology and practices of dissemination
- Dialogue
- Autobiography
- Fictional correspondence
- The epistolary consultation
- Anecdotes
- Code, truth, or ruse? the vapors in the republic of letters
- Well-timed fits
- The practice of vapors
- The force of the imagination
- Relating fits and creating enigmas: the role of narrative
- Bodies awaiting exegesis
- The rise of medical narrative
- In the shadow of a gothic tale
- Traps and countertraps
- The construction of secrets
- Adopting roles and redefining medicine
- To mystify or to demystify? establishing the role of the therapist
- Magnetism, parodies, and mystification: the art of framing a therapeutic
- Practice
- Strategies of legitimation and definitions of the patient to come
- Investing in women
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-342) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226275543
- 022627554X
- OCLC:
- 898717423
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