Approaching Hysteria : : Disease and Its Interpretations / / Mark S. Micale.
Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "vaporous" salong women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund F...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Approaching HYSTERIA
- INTRODUCTION: THE NEW HYSTERIA STUDIES
- A SHORT "HISTORY" OF HYSTERIA
- Part ONE. HYSTERIA AS MEDICAL DISEASE
- Chapter 1. THE MAJOR INTERPRETIVE TRADITIONS
- Chapter 2. THEORIZING DISEASE HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Part TWO.HYSTERIA AS METAPHOR
- Chapter 3. CULTURES OF HYSTERIA-PAST AND PRESENT TRADITIONS
- Chapter 4. CULTURES OF HYSTERIA: FUTURE ORIENTATIONS
- CONCLUSION: REMEMBERING HYSTERIA
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX