Medical Muses - Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Hardcover, New)

Blanche, Augustine, and Genevieve found themselves in the hysteria ward of the Salpetriere 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 Genevieve? What role did they play in their own peculiar form of stardom? And what exactly were they suffering from? Hysteria with its dramatic seizures, hallucinations, and reenactments of past traumas may be an illness of the past, but the notions of femininity that lie behind it offer insights into disorders of the present."

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2011
First published:	May 2011
Authors:	Asti Hustvedt
Dimensions:	218 x 147 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	386
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-02560-6
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Miscellaneous items > General
LSN:	0-393-02560-8
Barcode:	9780393025606

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