RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric. From Hysteria to Hormones : : A Rhetorical History / / Amy Koerber.
In From Hysteria to Hormones, Amy Koerber examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women’s health.Shortly after Ernest Henry Starling coined the term “hormone” in 1905, hormones be...
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Koerber, Amy, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric. From Hysteria to Hormones : A Rhetorical History / Amy Koerber. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (264 p.) : 8 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric ; 7 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Hormones and Hysteria: A Rhetorical Topology -- 2 Hysteria from Ancient Texts until the Nineteenth Century: The Womb as Topological Space -- 3 Charcot’s Circus: Nineteenth-Century Science of Hysteria as a Moment of Stasis -- 4 Stasis Unsettled: The Early Twentieth-Century Rise of Endocrinology -- 5 Topology of Sex Difference: A Long History of Men Saying Outrageous Things about Women’s Reproductive Organs -- 6 Illuminating Women: Metaphor and Movement after Centuries of “Groping in the Dark” -- 7 This Is Your [Female] Brain on Hormones: Enthymeme in Contemporary Discourse -- 8 From Hysteria to Hormones -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In From Hysteria to Hormones, Amy Koerber examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women’s health.Shortly after Ernest Henry Starling coined the term “hormone” in 1905, hormones began to provide a chemical explanation for bodily phenomena that were previously understood in terms of “wandering wombs,” humors, energies, and balance. In this study, Koerber posits that the discovery of hormones was not so much a revolution as an exigency that required old ways of thinking to be twisted, reshaped, and transformed to fit more scientific turn-of-the-century expectations of medical practices. She engages with texts from a wide array of medical and social scientific subdisciplines; with material from medical archives, including patient charts, handwritten notes, and photographs from the Salpêtrière Hospital, where Dr. Jean Charcot treated hundreds of hysteria patients in the late nineteenth century; and with current rhetorical theoretical approaches to the study of health and medicine. In doing so, Koerber shows that the boundary between older, nonscientific ways of understanding women’s bodies and newer, scientific understandings is much murkier than we might expect.A clarifying examination of how the term “hormones” preserves key concepts that have framed our understanding of women’s bodies from ancient times to the present, this innovative book illuminates the ways in which the words we use today to discuss female reproductive health aren’t nearly as scientifically accurate or socially progressive as believed. Scholars of rhetoric, gender studies, and women’s health will find Koerber’s work provocative and valuable. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023) Hormones History. Hysteria History. Rhetoric. Women Health and hygiene History. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric. bisacsh Science communication. feminist theory. health communication. medical rhetoric. rhetoric of health and medicine. rhetorical theory. women’s health. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110745221 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271081571?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271081571 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271081571/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Hormones and Hysteria: A Rhetorical Topology -- 2 Hysteria from Ancient Texts until the Nineteenth Century: The Womb as Topological Space -- 3 Charcot’s Circus: Nineteenth-Century Science of Hysteria as a Moment of Stasis -- 4 Stasis Unsettled: The Early Twentieth-Century Rise of Endocrinology -- 5 Topology of Sex Difference: A Long History of Men Saying Outrageous Things about Women’s Reproductive Organs -- 6 Illuminating Women: Metaphor and Movement after Centuries of “Groping in the Dark” -- 7 This Is Your [Female] Brain on Hormones: Enthymeme in Contemporary Discourse -- 8 From Hysteria to Hormones -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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