Hysteria

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The story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing. Andrew Scull gives a fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts in social, cultural, and medical perceptions through history.



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 endeavour, but through growing understanding and cultural change. More generally, it raises the question of how diseases are framed, and how conceptions of a disease change through history. 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. Some regarded it as a peculiarly English malady, 'the natural concomitant of England's greater civilization and refinement'. Women were the majority of patients, and the illness became associated with female biology, resulting in some gruesome 'treatments'. Charcot and Freud were key practitioners defining the nature of the illness. But curiously, the illness seemed to swap gender during the First World War when male hysterics frequently suffering from shell shock were also subjected to brutal 'treatments'. Subsequently, the 'disease' declined and eventually disappeared, at least in professional circles, though attenuated elements remain, reclassified for instance as post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Hysteria

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Hysteria is een ondeugende romantische komedie gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal over de uitvinding van de vibrator tegen de vrouwenziekte hysteria in het victoriaanse engeland de jonge dokter mortimer granville dancy krijgt na diverse keren ontslagen te zijn wegens te moderne aanpak Op voorraad. Voor 15:00 uur besteld, vrijdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Hysteria [DVD]

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Het victoriaanse engeland eind negentiende eeuw de jonge dokter mortimer krijgt na diverse keren ontslagen te zijn wegens een te moderne aanpak een baan als assistent van dokter dalrymple die vrouwen behandelt voor hysterie deze aandoening werd destijds toegeschreven aan vrouwen met prikkelb 2 - 3 weken .. MEER INFO

Psychiatry and Its Discontents

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an enthralling collection that will shock many enrage some and entertain all simon rich author of hits and misses a must read for those interested in learning about the fraught history of psychiatry susannah cahalan author of brain on fire andrew scull s deep historical knowledge of t 3 - 4 weken .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 13 oktober 2011

Aantal pagina's: 240

Illustraties: Met illustraties

Hoofdauteur: Andrew Scull

Hoofduitgeverij: Oxford University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 20 mm

Product lengte: 197 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 128 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm

Verpakking lengte: 198 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 178 g

EAN: 9780199692989

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