Medical Muses The Culture of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Name: Medical Muses The Culture of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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ISBN: 9780393025606

ISBN-10: 0393025608

ISBN-13: 9780393025606

Edition: 2011

Authors: Asti Hustvedt

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Blanche, Augustine, and Geneviève found themselves in the hysteria ward of the Salpetrière 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 Geneviève? What role did they play in their own peculiar form of…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rolf Harris Productions Pty, Limited
Publication date: 6/10/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English