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Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations

Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 5248

Medical ReferenceLiterary CriticismCognition

ISBN10: 0691656460
ISBN13: 9780691656465
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2019
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms. In this fascnating and authoritative book, Mark Micale surveys the range of past and present readings of hysteria by intellectual historians; historians of science and medicine; scholars in gender studies, art history, and literature; and psychoanalysts, psychiatriasts, clinical psychologists, and neurologists. In so doing, he explores numerous questions raised by this evergrowing body of literature: Why, in recent years, has the history of hysterical disorders carried such resonance for commentators in the sciences and humanities? What can we learn form the textual traditions of hysteria about writing the history of disease in general? What is the broader cultural meaning of the new hysteria studies?

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