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Medical muses : hysteria in nineteenth-century Paris / Asti Hustvedt.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2011Description: x, 372 p. ill., ports. 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781408815120
  • 1408815125
  • 9781408822357
  • 9780747576334
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.890092/244361 22
Other classification:
  • Vla
Summary: Hysteria as a disease no longer exists, but in the nineteenth century hysteria was thought to affect half of all women in one of its myriad forms. In 1862 the famous and infamous Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, under the reign of renowned neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, became the focal point for study of the mysterious illness. Medical Muses tells the stories of Blanche, Augustine and Genevieve, young women who found themselves in Charcot's ward as medical celebrities
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First published: New York : Norton

Includes bibliographical references and index

Hysteria as a disease no longer exists, but in the nineteenth century hysteria was thought to affect half of all women in one of its myriad forms. In 1862 the famous and infamous Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, under the reign of renowned neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, became the focal point for study of the mysterious illness. Medical Muses tells the stories of Blanche, Augustine and Genevieve, young women who found themselves in Charcot's ward as medical celebrities