Asti Hustvedt: Medical Muses | Taschenbuch

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Cover: 9781408822357 | Medical Muses | Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris | Asti Hustvedt

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A groundbreaking new book about the misogynistic nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focusing on the renowned Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris.'Fascinating and beautifully written' Guardian'Fascinating ... gives us a disturbing insight into the extent to which doctors, patients and diseases, both then and now, are products of their time' Sunday Times

In 1862 the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris became the epicenter of the study of hysteria, the mysterious illness then thought to affect half of all women.

There, prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot's contentious methods caused furore within the church and divided the medical community. Treatments included hypnosis, piercing and the evocation of demons and, despite the controversy they caused, the experiments became a fascinating and fashionable public spectacle.

Medical Muses tells the stories of the women institutionalised in the Salpêtrière. Theirs is a tale of science and ideology, medicine and the occult, of hypnotism, sadism, love and theatre. Combining hospital records, municipal archives, memoirs and letters, Medical Muses sheds new light on a crucial moment in psychiatric history.

Über den Autor

Asti Hustvedt is an independent scholar who has written extensively on hysteria and literature. She has a Ph.D in French literature from New York University, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Phi Betta Kapa Fellowship. She is the editor of The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France and has published many translations. She lives in New York City.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	384
Inhalt:	X 372 S.
ISBN-13:	9781408822357
ISBN-10:	1408822350
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hustvedt, Asti
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	195 x 129 x 28 mm
Von/Mit:	Asti Hustvedt
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.08.2012
Gewicht:	0,265 kg

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