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Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

A fascinating study of three young female hysterics who shaped our early notions of psychology.
Blanche, Augustine, and GeneviÂ¨ve found themselves in the hysteria ward of the SalpetriÂ¨re Hospital in 1870s Paris, where their care was directed by the prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. They became medical celebrities: every week, eager crowds arrived at the hospital to observe their symptoms; they were photographed, sculpted, painted, and transformed into characters in novels. The remarkable story of their lives as patients in the clinic is a strange amalgam of intimate details and public exposure, science and religion, medicine and the occult, hypnotism, love, and theater.

But who were Blanche, Augustine, and GeneviÂ¨ve? What role did they play in their own peculiar form of stardom? And what exactly were they suffering from? Hysteriaâ‚¬"with its dramatic seizures, hallucinations, and reenactments of past traumasâ‚¬"may be an illness of the past, but the notions of femininity that lie behind it offer insights into disorders of the present. 40 black-and-white illustrations
Country USA
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
Format Bargain Price
EANs 8601416222264
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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