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 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.
Andrew Scull has held faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and the University of California, where he is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies. He is a past president of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, many of them on the history of psychiatry in Britain and the United States. He has lectured on five continents, as well as making many media appearances on programmes dealing with mental health issues.
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Prologue: Suffocation of the mother 1: Mysteria 2: Neurologie 3: An English malady? 4: Reflexly mad 5: American Nervousness 6: A hysterical circus 7: Freudian hysterics 8: The wounds of war 9: L'hystérie morte? Further reading
Prologue: Suffocation of the mother 1: Mysteria 2: Neurologie 3: An English malady? 4: Reflexly mad 5: American Nervousness 6: A hysterical circus 7: Freudian hysterics 8: The wounds of war 9: L'hystérie morte? Further reading
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