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Hysteria : the biography / Andrew Scull.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scull, Andrew, 1947- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hysteria.
- Hysteria--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ( 223 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 through history.
- 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?
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-04603-4
- 0-19-162333-4
- 1-282-38320-5
- 9786612383205
- 0-19-157180-6
- OCLC:
- 505429928
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