Approaching Hysteria

Mark S. Micale

Princeton University Press, 2019

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Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "vaporous" salong women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms. I

ISBN-13
9780691605616
ISBN-10
0691605610
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2019
Publication date
2019-01-15
Pages
344
Dimensions
156x235x22
Weight
514