Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
08.12.2009
Abbildungen
w. mit 15 Illustrationen 20 cm
Verlag
Oxford University PressSeitenzahl
240
Maße (L/B/H)
19.8/13.2/2.5 cm
Gewicht
340 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-19-956096-7
The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women--or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of hysteria--an illness that disappeared not through medical endeavor, but through growing understanding and cultural change. The lurid history of hysteria makes fascinating reading. Charcot's clinics showed off flamboyantly "hysterical" patients taking on sexualized poses, and among the visiting professionals was one Sigmund Freud. Scull discusses the origins of the idea of hysteria, the development of a neurological approach by John Sydenham and others, hysteria as a fashionable condition, and its growth from the 17th century. Subsequently, the "disease" declined and eventually disappeared.
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