Hysterical Men The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness

Name: Hysterical Men The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness
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ISBN: 9780674031661

ISBN-10: 0674031660

ISBN-13: 9780674031661

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mark S. Micale

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Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity-the basis for patriarchal rule-in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. Hysterical Men boldly challenges this triumphant vision of the stable and secure male by examining the central role played by modern science and medicine in constructing and sustaining it. Mark Micale reveals the hidden side of this vision, that is, the innumerable cases of disturbed and deranged men who passed under the eyes of male medical and scientific elites from the seventeenth century onward. Since ancient times, physicians and philosophers had closely observed and…

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List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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Prologue: Hysteria: The Male Malady



Hysterick Women and Hypochondriack Men



The Great Victorian Eclipse



Charcot and La Grande Hysterie Masculine



Male Hysteria at the Fin de Siecle



Freud and the Origins of Psychoanalysis


Conclusion. Men and the Fictions of Medicine


Notes


Index